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Catrina is a social anthropologist with a regional focus on China. She is interested in the interplay between work and family, particularly how these relationships shape people’s livelihoods and futures. Her PhD research and current writing are concerned with state-owned enterprise workers in the steel industry and consider the dynamics of gender and generations in the context of China’s industrial reforms.
Catrina teaches masters and undergraduate modules on China’s social welfare policy and Chinese family and society.
She joined XJTLU in January 2024. Prior to that, she received her PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2023.
Research interests
anthropology of work and labour
social reproduction
family, generations and gender
Teaching
CCS404 China's Welfare and Development
Education/Academic qualification
PhD (anthropology), Goldsmiths, University of London - 2023
MRes (anthropology), Goldsmiths, University of London - 2018
MSc (China in comparative perspective), London School of Economics and Political Science - 2015
BA (Chinese and economics), School of Oriental and African Studies - 2014
Person Types
- Staff
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Research output
- 1 Chapter
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A Good Life Postponed: Working in the Countryside, Retiring in the City in Contemporary China
Schwendener, C., 27 Jul 2023, Rural Life in Late Socialism: Politics of Development and Imaginaries of the Future. Wilcox, P., Rigg, J. & Nguyen, M. T. N. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 240-262 (Social Sciences in Asia; vol. 44).Research output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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