GSA-China's first phase of data collection in China is now complete. The research focus has been on how scientific accountability has been problematised and responded to in China. Thanks to NGOs staff, bioethicists and government administrators who have provided invaluable help. Special thanks to Prof Chenggang Zhang and his PhD students at the Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University. They provided stimulating discussions on what 'being health...

NGOs are a key component in a civil society to ensure the state's delivery of accountable governance. Yet the Chinese government's new draft regulations on NGOs seems to put the survival of civil groups in an authoritarian system in a more worrying state. Recently openMovement published an invited contribution from Dr Zhang on State-NGO relations. In this article, Dr Zhang pointed out that 'China's heigh...

Dr Joy Zhang is invited to give a talk at the Collège d’études mondiales‘ annual seminar, 'Social Sciences at the Age of Second Modernity', this coming Monday. This event is a tribute to Ulrich Beck. Zhang's talk, Cosmopolitan Communities and the Reworking Of Boundaries, draws on her ongoing research on China's governance of environmental and biomedical sciences. It argues that cosmopolitan belonging is a form of...

In early March, Dr Joy Zhang attended the ChinaRepro Tech Workshop organised by the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at Cambridge University. The workshop kicked off with small group discussions on two manuscripts: Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China by Dr. Ayo Wahlberg and Infertile Futures: Producing and Reproducing the Chinese Environment by Dr. Janelle Lamoreaux. These two groundbreaking empirical studies offer socio-historical...