Biographie

Han Tao is a postdoctoral researcher on the research project "Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations", led by Dr. Lena Kaufmann. Han completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex in 2021, where her doctoral research focused on queer intimacies, parenting, and family-making in urban China. Her recent monograph, Queering Kinship: Non-heterosexual Couples, Parents, and Families in Guangdong, China  (2024), unpacks queer subjects’ experience of cultivating durable kinship relations through their negotiation with biological relatives, cultural conventions, and state legislation. This ethnographic work also sheds light on the intersections of assisted reproductive technologies with long-standing concerns such as parenthood, sexuality, transnational markets, and social stratification. From February 2022 to July 2024, Han was a postdoctoral researcher at IT University of Copenhagen, where she was affiliated with the "Moving Data, Moving People" project. During this period, she conducted research on credit “beautification” agencies, bank digital lending and the challenges faced by micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Southern China. Han’s research interests centre around kinship, sexuality, migration, data, and technology.