CONTRIBUTOR:

Yuan Zhong

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

PhD Candidate

DEPARTMENT:

Centre for Gender Studies

INSTITUTION:

SOAS, University of London

BIOGRAPHY:

Yuan Zhong is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London. Her doctoral research focuses on the marriages between tongzhi, the men interested in same-sex love and eroticism, and their heterosexual wives in contemporary China. In this research, the gendered dynamics in Chinese family relations and sexual practices within/outside marriages are qualitatively explored.