Areas of Focus
- Anthropology
- Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
Work Experience
- 2009-2011 - Peking University, Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2000-2009 PhD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications
- Contemporary Chinese Medicine: Historical Genesis and Scientific Anxiety, Lili Lai, 2017
- How to Touch the Texture of Life: Four Aspects of Everyday Life Research Methodology, Lili Lai, Hui Zhang, 2017
- Reproductive Anxiety and Practical Rationality: An Anthropological Observation of IVF Technology, Lili Lai, 2017
- Language as a Material Existence, Lili Lai, 2017
- Nationality Medicines in China: Institutional Rationality and Healing Charisma, Lili Lai, 2015
- Information and Its Practical Other: Crafting Zhuang Nationality Medicine, Judith Farquhar, Lili Lai, 2014
- The Local Intimacies of China’s Rural-Urban Divide, Lili Lai, 2014
- Everyday Hygiene in Rural Henan, Lili Lai, 2014
- Immanent Sociality: Open-ended Belonging, Lili Lai, 2013
- A Cultural Plaza in Shang Village: Why Culture? Whose Plaza?, Lili Lai, 2012