This paper examines the Chinese postpartum practice of Zuo yuezi (ZYZ or “sitting the month”) in Hong Kong as a socially organised domain of care, authority and maternal identity-making. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 2021 and 2023, including narrative interviews with 18 mothers (and some of their family members, care workers and representatives of … Continue reading Bodies in Transition: Postpartum Practices, Care Work and Parenting Discourses in Hong Kong