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Catrina Schwendener

Assistant Professor

20232026

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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

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