Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China

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 canno...