教师及职员
Teresa Kuan

Assistant Professor
OfficeNAH 325
OfficeTel.3943 7728
Emailtkuan"at"cuhk.edu.hk
EducationqualificationPh.D. University of Southern California
LanguagesEnglish,Putonghua
Introduction

Prof. Teresa Kuan first studied anthropology atUC Berkeley before going on for doctoral training at the University of SouthernCalifornia. She was originally trained in medical anthropology but has sincethen become interested in expertise as a cultural phenomenon. Her book Love’s Uncertainty examines theintersection between popular childrearing advice and the lived experience ofparenting amongst urban, middle-class families in China. Building on thisprevious work concerning the popularization of the notion of the psychologicalchild, Prof. Kuan is currently conducting research on the development of familytherapy in mainland China. Prof. Kuan was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow atWhittier College between 2009–2011, and a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow between 2011–2012.She joined the Department of Anthropology at CUHK in the Fall of 2012.
Research interests

Anthropology of China,childhood studies, psychological anthropology, medical anthropology, theanthropology of ethics
Geographicalareas of research

Mainland China
Courses taught

Fall 2015ANTH 5010 Anthropology: A Postgraduate Introduction

ANTH 4321/ANTH 5323 Topics in Anthropology: TheAnthropology of Ethics

Spring 2015

On research leave
Current research

Repairing Relationships: An Ethnographic Study of the Development ofFamily Therapy in China (GRF grant)
Awards

CUHK Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award 2013
Selected Publications

Books
2015Love's Uncertainty: The Politics and Ethicsof Child Rearing in Contemporary China. Oakland, CA: University ofCalifornia Press.
Book reviews
2014Review of Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China. By Hans Steinmüller.New York and Oxford: Berghahn (2013). AsianAnthropology 13(1): 78-80.
2014Reviewof Chinese Modernity and the IndividualPsyche. Edited by Andrew Kipnis. New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012). The China Journal 71: 246-248.
2013Review of Young Chinese in Urban China. By AlexCockain. New York: Routledge (2012). TheChina Journal 69:230-231.