RCCHC "Science, Technology, Society and Culture" Talk Series 13 - Socialist Revisionism or Women’s Liberation? The Politics of Abortion in Modern China

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Date

25 Oct 2024
Organiser

Research Centre for Chinese History and Culture
Time

09:30 - 11:00
Venue

Online via Zoom

Speaker

Dr Sarah Mellors RODRIGUEZ

Enquiry

Ms Carmen LAW 34008979 rcchc@polyu.edu.hk

Remarks

This talk will be delivered in English

Summary

China has one of the highest abortion rates in the world. This presentation explores the historical origins of this trend, revealing how abortion inadvertently became a primary method of fertility control. Moreover, this lecture demonstrates that abortion has long been the subject of intense ideological, feminist, and demographic debates in China.

Keynote Speaker

Dr Sarah Mellors RODRIGUEZ

Acting Associate Professor of Chinese Humanities
Emory University

Sarah Mellors Rodriguez, PhD is Acting Associate Professor of Chinese Humanities at Emory University. Her book, Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911-2021 (Cambridge University Press, 2023), uses interviews and archival research to analyze how ordinary people navigated China’s shifting fertility policies both before and during the One Child Policy era.

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