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CHH MA Dissertation Conference 2022

1 May 2022

Thursday 12 May, 9am–6pm BST. All warmly welcome. Please join us – in person or via Zoom – to support the wonderful China Health & Humanity students and find out about the impressive range of projects they've been pursuing during this difficult period.

CHH MA conference

Location:
Room 412, UCL Archaeology Building, 31-34 Gordon Square WC1H 0PY

Or join remotely:

https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpf-GvpjMpHtKekG4-9u42P1kaJlF_Shk5
 

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Programme, am

PANEL 1, 9–11am: Old Age and Dying in China
Chair: Professor Therese Hesketh    Discussant: Zhang Yangbo

  • Huang Chongxing: Young People's Attitude towards Nursing Home Care for their Elderly in Contemporary China
  • Dun Yige: Does Social Health Care Insurance Reduce the Burden of Health Expenditure among Elderly Households with Chronic Diseases in China?
  • Lin Yuqin: The Cost of Growing Old in China: the effect of health insurance
  • Diao Yujiao: On the Separation of Life and Death in Tang Dynasty China: an analysis of mourning poems and funeral orations

PANEL 2, 11.30am–1pm:  Educational Psychology
 Chair: Mr Benny Dembitzer    Discussant: Fan Yiling

  • Ye Chaoqi: Impacts of Parenting Styles on the Interpersonal Relations of College Students in China since the 1980s
  • Mao Sijia: The Influence of Online Education on Chinese Secondary School Students’ Psychological Health during the Pandemic
  • Li Jingrui: China's Psychological Health Problems of the Single Child and Why these Problems Occur

Programme, pm

PANEL 3, 2–3.30pm: Between the Global and the Local: modernising traditions
Chair: Dr Gareth Breen    Discussant Zhou Zishu

  • Ji Cheng: How to Standardise Modernise and Internationalise Chinese Herbal Medicine?
  • Zhang Yangbo: How did Biomedicine Influence Public Health in China over the 20th Century?
  • Fan Yiling: What Were the Main Causes for the Emergence of Self-cultivation Cults in the 1980s?

PANEL 4, 4–6pm: Health Humanities and Psychology
Chair: Professor Sonu Shamdasani    Discussant Li Jingrui

  • Zhou Zishu: Depression among Chinese Youth: a study of contemporary dystopian tendencies in China
  • Qing Xiaoqi: The Unique Aspects of Medication and Psychological Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) in China
  • Wang Lichen: Depression and Stigma in 20th and 21st Century China
  • Zhang Mingkuan: Thinking about Animal Rights through the Framework of the Anthropocene: do humans have the right to eat animals? ‒ a China-based study

Supervisors & Panel Chairs

Dr Gareth Breen (UCL Anthropology) is interested in the role of desire in the production of religious institutions both within Taiwan and transnationally. He is also interested in alienation as a condition of being in non-humans as well as humans, and the socio-materiality of ghosts. His areas of interest are Christianity in China and Taiwan, religious subjectivities, anthropological theory and the gender of divinity.

Dr Lily Chang (UCL History) is a historian of late imperial and modern China, specialising in the formation of legal measures pertaining to the military during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Her work traces and explores the importance of jurisprudence in the historical development of twentieth-century China. 

Mr Benny Dembitzer is a British economist who has specialised in the economics of developing countries, particularly on the continent of Africa. He was a member of the team that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Benny runs a company called ETHICAL EVENTS LTD that provides an umbrella for a range of activities in the wider field of education for development. 

Professor Michael Heinrich is Professor of Ethnopharmacology and Medicinal Plant Research (Pharmacognosy) and was previously the head of the research cluster ‘Biodiversity and Medicines’ at the UCL School of Pharmacy. His main research focuses on anti-inflammatory agents, the safety of herbal medicines and modern ethnopharmacological approaches, including value chains of medicinal plants (especially from Asian countries).

Professor Therese Hesketh is a Professor of Global and Child Health in UCL's IGH/ICH. She also holds a professorship at Zhejiang University. She has published widely on numerous subjects in the public health of China.

Dr Paul Kadetz is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Global Health and Development at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh, and a Professor of Practice in the Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering at the University of San Diego. Paul works at the intersections of global health, international development, and critical medical anthropology.

Professor Vivienne Lo (UCL History) is the convenor of the MA programme, China Health and Humanity. Her research concerns the history of medicine and nutrition in ancient and medieval China. She uses visual and material culture as her main sources. She also publishes about the value of using Chinese films for the Health Humanities.