Yating Li

Yating Li is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her academic background encompasses modern Chinese history, international politics, Chinese philosophy, and gender studies. With a primary research interest in gender and medicine, her proposed dissertation, titled "Pathologizing the Womb: Medical Knowledge, Women’s Body, and Mirage of Health in China (1900s-1940s)", seeks to analyze how diverse discourses around womb maladies emerged, circulated, and influenced both medical practices and individual experiences of illness, thereby shedding light on the broader tensions around health, modernity, gender, and sex in Republican Era.