Yi Yu

Yi Yu is an Associate Professor in the School of Geographic Sciences at East China Normal University. Trained in cultural and political geography, she has spent more than a decade investigating how China’s “silver economy” is reshaping everyday life, public policy and urban space. Her ethnographic and mixed-methods research shows how market reforms, health metrics and sensor-driven “smart” technologies together turn later-life care into a data-driven, investor-oriented industry, while simultaneously intensifying the emotional labour performed largely by migrant, feminised care workers.