{"product_id":"good-quality-ayo-wahlberg-9780520297784","title":"Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China","description":"From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China's pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex. Today, there are sperm banks in each of China's twenty-two provinces, the biggest of which screen some three thousand to four thousand potential donors each year. Given the estimated one to two million azoospermic men--those who are unable to produce their own sperm--the demand remains insatiable. China's twenty-two sperm banks cannot keep up, spurring sperm bank directors to publicly lament chronic shortages and even warn of a national 'sperm crisis' (\u003ci\u003ejingzi weiji\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Quality \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the issues behind the crisis, including declining sperm quality in the country due to environmental pollution, as well as a chronic national shortage of donors. In doing so, Wahlberg outlines the specific style of Chinese sperm banking that has emerged, shaped by the particular cultural, juridical, economic and social configurations that make up China's restrictive reproductive complex.\u003ci\u003e Good Quality\u003c\/i\u003e shows how this high-throughput style shapes the ways in which men experience donation and how sperm is made available to couples who can afford it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ayo Wahlberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520297784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520297784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2018","brand":"Ayo Wahlberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119768531199,"sku":"9780520297784","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c0f5f355-9e3d-46c5-a155-e005d2b19e08.jpg?v=1687410845","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/good-quality-ayo-wahlberg-9780520297784","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}