Publications of Dr. Mingyuan Zhang Betancourt

Academic Publications

• Betancourt, Mingyuan Zhang. 2026. Making one's own doctor: épicerie medicine and the informal circulation of antibiotics in northern Madagascar. Medical Anthropology 45(3):242-255. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2026.2656931.

• Kirchhelle, Claas; Portillo, Mirza Y. Alas; Davis, Mark D.M.; Doron, Assa; Dreser, Anahí; Fortané, Nicolas; Haddad, Christian; Hinchliffe, Stephen; Kariuki, Samuel; Lewycka, Sonia; Molyneux, Sassy; Lozano, Cristina Moreno; Mutua, Edna; Okeke, Iruka N.; Betancourt, Mingyuan Zhang & Chandler, Clare I.R. 2026. (Un)intended consequences: a social sciences stocktake of a decade of Global Action Plan-inspired antimicrobial governance. The Lancet Microbe 7(3): 1-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.lanmic.2025.101315.

• Skender, Belma and Mingyuan Zhang. 2024. From local issue to global challenge: a brief overview of antibiotic shortages since the 1970s. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11, 1242. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03759-y

• Zhang, Mingyuan. 2023. In Shortage: Understanding Global Antibiotic Supply Chains Through Pharmaceutical Trade Fairs. Anthropologica 65 (1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica65120232605

• Zhang, Mingyuan and Lise Bjerke. 2023. Antibiotics ‘Dumped’: Negotiating Pharmaceutical Identities, Properties, and Interests in China-India Trade Disputes. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 37(2): 148-163. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12757

• Zhang, Mingyuan. 2023. Burn to Harvest, Burn to Sabotage: Between Fire and Water on a Sugar Plantation in Madagascar. American Anthropologist 125 (1): 100-111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13811

• Zhang, Mingyuan. 2022. Kung Fu vs. Radio Calisthenics: The Confucius Institute and Chinese Culture Education in Madagascar. In: Tudoroiu, T., Kuteleva, A. (eds) China in the Global South. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1344-0_6

• Zhang, Mingyuan. 2021. Writing Against “Mask Culture”: Orientalism and Covid19 Responses in the West. Anthropologica 63 (1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.18357/anthropologica6312021327 (See my talk based on this article here: https://youtu.be/E9GMIDfahqg)

• Guccini, Federica and Mingyuan Zhang. 2021. “Being Chinese” in Mauritius and Madagascar: Comparing Chinese Diasporic Communities in the Western Indian Ocean, Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 4 (2), edited by Iain Walker and Martin Slama, pp. 91-117. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26443/jiows.v4i2.79

• Zhang, Mingyuan. 2015. Powers of the Dead: Struggles over Paper Money Burning in Urban China. The University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology 23 (1): 1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5206/uwoja.v23i1.8955

Thesis and dissertation

• Zhang, Mingyuan. 2018. “Being Chinese” in Madagascar. University of Western Ontario, School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 5778. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/5778/

• Zhang, Mingyuan. 2014. The Reciprocal Influences of Tourism and the Old Order Mennonite Community in St. Jacobs, Ontario. University of Western Ontario, School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 2168. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2168/

Reviews and short pieces

• Zhang, Mingyuan. 2019. Review of Chinese Transnational Migration in the Age of Global Modernity: The Case of Oceania, by Liangni Sally Liu; forward by Richard Bedford. New York: Routledge, 2018. Pacific Affairs 92(3).

• Zhang, Mingyuan. 2018. Telecommunication Infrastructure, Public Space and CASCA Conference in Cuba. Culture Vol 12, Special - Stories from Cuba (Newsletter of the Canadian Anthropology Society) https://cascacultureblog.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/telecommunication-infrastructure-public-space-and-casca-conference-in-cuba/