Jian Liang is a current PhD student in Anthropology at ANU. She holds two bachelor’s degrees from Xiamen University (Anthropology and Traditional Chinese Medicine) and was awarded two Master’s degrees in Anthropology and Methodology from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
  
Her PhD research lies at the intersection of Medical Anthropology, Environmental Anthropology, and Economic Anthropology, with a particular focus on the politics of temporalities, investigating how different understandings of “time” and “value”, ontologies of human-nonhuman relationships, epistemologies of health and wellbeing, and multiple medical knowledge systems interweave and interact with each other in contemporary China. Her fieldwork is based in the Xinhui area of Guangdong Province and takes as its topic the aging citrus peels—a plant-based Chinese herb that works as food, medicine, gifts, a collective historical and emotional memory, a cultural heritage, and a regional development engine, while also playing roles in wider social life.
  
  Before her PhD, Jian conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the “She” (畲）ethnic group in Fujian, China, and in medical clinics and schools in China and the UK. Her medical education background and working experience as a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner enrich her anthropological perspective. Methodologically, she is skilled in interviews, focus groups, discourse analysis, and social network analysis, and she brings a strong commitment to mixed methods ethnography.