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Name in Chinese
潘毅
Biography
Pun Ngai received her Ph.D. from the University of London, SOAS in 1998. She is the winner of the 2006 C. Wright Mills Award for her book, Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (Duke University Press, 2005). Made in China is widely used as required reading in major universities in America, Europe, and Asia. Together with Dying for Apple: Foxconn and Chinese Workers (co-authored with Jenny Chan and Mark Selden, 2016), these two texts have been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and Chinese. Two of her Chinese books were also awarded Hong Kong Book Prize 2007 and 2011 as the top ten popular books, widely read in Hong Kong and Mainland China.
She published extensively and cross-disciplinary in top-tier journals in the areas of Cultural Studies, China Studies, Labor Studies, Anthropology, and Sociology. Her articles appeared in Positions, Public Culture, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Global Labor Studies, Work, Employment and Society, The China Quarterly, Modern China, and The China Journal, Cultural Anthropology, Dialectical Anthropology, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Sociological Review, Sociology, etc.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A city of exceptional risks? A critical policy analysis of Hong Kong unemployment insurance
PUN, N., JIN, S. & YANG, H., Jul 2023, In: Journal of Asian Public Policy. 16, 2, p. 221-236 16 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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Global Consciousness Predicts Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic : Empirical Evidence From 35 Cultures
CHEN, S. X., NG, J. C. K., HUI, B. P. H., AU, A. K. Y., LAM, B. C. P., WU, W. C. H., PUN, N., BEATTIE, P., WELZEL, C. & LIU, J. H., Jun 2023, In: Social Psychological and Personality Science. 14, 5, p. 662-671 10 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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Internet as an ideology : nationalistic discourses, and multiple subject positions of Chinese internet workers
NA, Y. & PUN, N., Sept 2023, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 24, 3, p. 367-381 15 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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Prizes
Activities
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Reconceptualizing Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment in Global Pandemic Period
Ngai PUN (Speaker) & Peier CHEN (Speaker)
16 Dec 2022Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the ‘vanguard’ and spatial and class contradictions in China’s high-speed rail program
Ngai PUN (Speaker)
28 Apr 2022Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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Youth Work, Prosocial Behaviour, and Micro-Foundation of Working-Class Solidarity in China
Ngai PUN (Speaker)
7 Mar 2022Activity: Talks or Presentations › Public Lecture
Press/Media
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慈大辦理SIG論壇「大學參與地方團結經濟實踐」Prof Pun Ngai shares her views on i-COMMON HK at Tzu Chi University
21/08/23
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潘毅教授:為何年輕人大嘆精神貧窮?解構青年生活形態 上一代如何理解他們渴望自由? Prof Pun Ngai interviewed by media to discuss current youth issues in Hong Kong
31/07/23
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Commons不是夢 共同逐夢可成真 LU organises Forum on Connecting Commons and Cooperatives in Asia – Learning Experiences from Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
24/05/23
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Press/Media: Corporate News