Chia-Ling WU
Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, TAIWAN 106319
Tel: 886-2-3366-1225 Fax: 886-2-2368-3531
Email: clwu@ntu.edu.tw
Academic Appointments
August, 2023—Present Chair
Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
August, 2014—Present Professor
Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
August, 2014—Present Adjunct Professor
Department of Medical Education & Bioethics, National Taiwan University College of Medicine
August, 2002—July, 2014 Associate Professor
August, 1997—July, 2002 Assistant Professor
Education
1991-1997 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D. in Sociology, Minor in Women’s Studies)
Areas of Expertise
Sociology of Health; Gender Studies; Science, Technology and Society; Social Studies of Assisted Reproduction
Professional Services (selected)
Editor-in-chief of Taiwanese Sociology (2022-2023)
Editor-in-chief of Journal of Women’s and Gender Studies (Aug. 2016-July 2018)
Editor-in-chief of East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (2013-2015)
Panel member of European Research Council Advanced Grant Peer Review Panels (2014, 2016)
Advisory Board of Social Science and Medicine (2014-Present)
Advisory Board of Social Science and Medicine, Qualitative Research in Health (2021-Present)
Advisory Board of Sociology and Health and illness (2008-2018)
Research Grants (selected)
2024-2026 Research Grant from Taiwan Science and Technology Council, project titled “Anticipatory Governance of Transnational Reproduction: Risk Evaluation and Morality Navigation”
2023-2025 Research Grant from Taiwan Science and Technology Council, project titled “The New Anticipatory Regimes of Low Fertility Rate in Taiwan: Assisted Reproduction and Pronatalism”
2022-2024 Research Grant from Taiwan Science and Technology Council, project titled “Rebuilding Midwifery Model: Social Infrastructure, Professional Demarcation, and Welfare State”
2020-2022 Research Grant from Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, project tilted “The Making of Statistics on Reproduction and Its Gendered Innovation”
2019-2021 Research Grant from Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, project tilted “Choreographing Success Rates: Expectation of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Japan and Taiwan”
2017-2019 Research Grant from Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology, project tilted “Pronatalism, Stratified Reproduction and Reproductive Technology Governance”
Selected Publications
Wu, Chia-Ling. 2025. Duōbāotāi gònghéguó: Táiwān réngōng shēngzhí de xīwàng yǔ fēngxiǎn (Republic of Multiples: Hope and Risk in Taiwan’s Assisted Reproduction), translated by Yun-Ching Ke. Taipei: Weicheng. (This edition is translated, revised, and updated from Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction, published in 2023).
Wu, Chia-Ling, Wei-Hong Chen, Sam Robbins and Hinata Sakai. 2025.“Success Rates and Success Stories: Staging Anticipation on Fertility Clinic Websites in Taiwan, Japan, and the UK.” Social Science & Medicine 366:117655.
Wu, Chia-Ling. 2023. Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction. New York: Berghahn Books.
Wu, Chia-Ling and Chuan Yang. 2022. "Narrowing Women and Invisiblizing Men? Gendered Fertility Statistics in Taiwan." Journal of Women's and Gender Studies 51: 53-107. (in Chinese)
Wu, Chia-Ling, Yu-Ling Huang, Jung-ok Ha, Wei-hong Chen, and Yu-hsiang Huang. 2021. “Equal Access, Risk Prevention, or Pronatalism? Public Financing on In Vitro Fertilization in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.” Taiwan Democracy Quarterly 17(4): 49-104. (in Chinese)
Wu, Chia-Ling, Jung-Ok Ha and Azumi Tsuge. 2020. “Data Reporting as Care Infrastructure: Assembling ART Registries in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society (EASTS) 14(1): 35-59.
Yu-Ling Huang and Chia-Ling Wu. 2018. “New Feminist Biopolitics in Ultra-low-fertility East Asia.” Pp.125-144 in Making Kin not Population: Reconceiving Generations, edited by Adele Clarke and Donna Haraway. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.
Wu, Chia-Ling. 2017. From Single Motherhood to Queer Reproduction: Access Politics of Assisted Conception in Taiwan. Pp. 92-114 In Gender and Health in East Asia, eds. Angela Leung and Izumi Nakayama. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
Wu, Chia-Ling, Wenmay rei, Chung-Yeh Deng, and Hsin-Yi Hsieh. 2017. National Registries and Health Surveillance of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: a Comparative Study. Taiwan Journal of Public Health 36(1): 6-20. (in Chinese)
Wu, Chia-Ling. 2015. Erecting taəta in the front of Permanent House: Architectural Design and Social Reform for the Post-Disaster Reconstruction. Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine 20:9-73. (in Chinese)
Wu, Chia-Ling. 2012. IVF Policy and Global/Local Politics: The Making of Multiple-Embryo Transfer Regulation in Taiwan. Social Science & Medicine 75(4): 725-732.
Wu, Chia-Ling. 2012. “Choreographing Risk: Multiple Sociotechnical Networks of Multiple Pregnancy.” Taiwanese Sociology 22：111-156. (In Chinese)
Wu, Chia-Ling. 2011. “Managing Multiple Masculinities in Donor Insemination: Doctors Configuring Infertile Men and Sperm Donors in Taiwan.” Sociology of Health and Illness 33 (1) 96-113.
Chung-Yeh, Deng and Chia-Ling Wu*. 2010. “An Innovative Participatory Method for Newly Democratic Societies: The ‘Civic Groups Forum’ on National Health Insurance Reform in Taiwan.” Social Science & Medicine 70(6):896-903. (*correspondence author)
Awards
13th Academia Sinica Scholarly Monograph Award in Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024, for Making Multiple Babies: Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction
NTU Outstanding Teaching Award, Academic Year 2022–2023
NTU Excellence in Teaching Award, Academic Years 2004–2005, 2014–2015, 2016–2017, 2017–2018
NTU Outstanding Advisor Award, Academic Year 2024–2025