Current Research Areas: disability studies, prosthetics, anaplastology, artisanship, repair and maintenance, anthropology of medicine, care, ethnography, STS
Xinche studies the relationships and interactions between prosthetic producers, users, devices and technologies. Her research focuses on how care and recovery is made possible, meaningful and valuable through anaplastologists’ craft of objects in China’s growing anaplastology industry (yan fu). Exploring the corporeal knowledge and practices that anaplastologists employ, her work also engages with the biobureaucracy and bioeconomy frameworks of disability in contemporary China.
Xinche holds an M.Phil. and M.A. in Anthropology from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a B.A. in Diplomatic Translation and Interpreting from China Foreign Affairs University.