{"id":10803,"date":"2020-08-30T16:58:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=10803"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:56:18","slug":"ziqi-xie","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/profile\/ziqi-xie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ziqi Xie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matriculated September 2017<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests<\/h3>\n<p><span>Medical Anthropology; Psychological Anthropology; STS Studies; Reproduction; Assisted Reproductive Technologies; Reproductive and Population Governance; Biopolitics; Kinship; Family; Women\u2019s Health; Morality and Ethics; China; Asia<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>About<\/h3>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Ziqi Xie\u2019s research interests include topics of reproduction, biomedical technologies, medical knowledge-making, kin-making, family, gender, population and reproductive governance, pronatalism, and neoliberalism. Based on 23 cumulative months of fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2023 in IVF clinics, fertility laboratories, and with families seeking reproductive assistance in Guangdong Province, China, Ziqi is writing her dissertation titled \u201cMaking an \u2018Ideal Family\u2019 Through Assisted Reproduction: Family, Reproductive Governance, and Biomedicine in Pro-natalist China.\u201d Ziqi\u2019s work explores how state-level demographic concerns regarding population size and age structure have been reframed, reenacted, and remade as moral questions by both families and IVF professionals. Specifically, Ziqi highlights the ways that women of <\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar-SA\"><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span><span dir=\"rtl\"><\/span>\u201c<\/span><span>advanced maternal ages\u201d and assisted reproductive specialists in a major Chinese city negotiate state pronatalism, the resurgence of traditional family values, the ethics of assisted reproductive technologies, and the legacy of socialist discourses around gender equality.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before joining Boston University, Ziqi graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in 2017 with a major in anthropology. During her undergraduate years, Ziqi was a research assistant in a cancer center, an obstetric department, and an IVF center for two years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Awards &amp; Grants<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>David M. Schneider Award, American Anthropological Association. (2024).<\/li>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Cora Du Bois Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard University.<\/span> (<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">2024-2025).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Humane Studies Fellowship, The Institute for Humane Studies.<\/span> (<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">2024-2025).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Women\u2019s Council Scholarship.<\/span> (2024).<\/li>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Summer Travel Award, Center for Innovation in Social Science.<\/span> (2024).<\/li>\n<li><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant.<\/span> (2024).<\/li>\n<li><span>Department of Anthropology Contemporary Chinese Cultures Fund, Summer Research Grant. (2022).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Long-term (GRAF) Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship. (Fall 2019, Spring 2022).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2021).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-ogsb=\"white\">Society for Psychological Anthropology\/Robert Lemelson Student Fellowship, American Anthropological Association,<\/span><span data-ogsb=\"white\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ogsb=\"white\">(2020).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2020).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2019).<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Short-term (GRAF) <span>Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship.<\/span>\u00a0(Summer 2019).<\/li>\n<li><span>Department of Anthropology Summer Research Grant. (2018).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Boston University Dean\u2019s Fellowship (Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2022).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><i>forthcoming<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9123,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9123"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16292,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/10803\/revisions\/16292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/anthrop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}