Good Quality - The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China

Ayo Wahlberg, University of California Press, 2018.

Good Quality is an assemblage ethnography of how sperm banking came to be routinized in China. Based on 8 years of episodic fieldwork at China’s oldest and largest sperm bank in Changsha, Hunan province, the book meticulously chronicles how, beginning in the early 1980s, a unique style of sperm banking would emerge in China, shaped by the cultural, juridical, economic and social configurations that make up China’s restrictive reproductive complex.

Good Quality - The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China is winner of the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Book Prize, 2019

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