With special reference to palliative (hospice) care in Chinese mainland, this paper takes a social constructivist perspective to examine “genre.”Concepts of “field of genre / genre field” and “genreization” are proposed and these concepts are related to P. Bourdieu’s “habitus.” The paper discusses the emerging genres and genre fields of palliative (hospice) care in Chinese mainland, and explores the influencing factors of genreization as well as relations in this new field.