Staff profile

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Durham University. My doctoral research examines the interactions between British female medical missionaries and Chinese women in medical practice, social customs, and everyday life from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. I focus particularly on their contributions to obstetric care and the development of women’s reproductive healthcare in China. I will collect archival materials from multiple missionary organisations, including the London Missionary Society and the United Free Church of Scotland, as well as periodicals, newspapers, and personal diaries, to analyse interactions between missionaries and Chinese women in Hong Kong, Hankou, and Manchuria. This multi-dimensional approach illuminates the complex intersections of gender, medicine, and modernity in China.

Conference and workshop presentations

“Through Western Eyes: A Female Medical Missionary’s Perspective on Chinese Reproductive Practices, 1898–1902”, British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference, University of Leeds, 25–26 April 2025.

• Social history of medicine in late imperial and modern China
• Christianity, empire, and colonial encounters in China
• Gender
• Obstetrics and women’s healthcare
• Drugs and pharmaceuticals