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Personal profile
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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Commoning the Circular Economy: A Study of Repair Practices in the Greater Bay Area
1/01/25 → 31/07/25
Project: Grant Research
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Whither worker media? Migrant labour, platformized media/cultural production and working-class formation in China (工人媒體/文化向何處去?農民工、平台化的文化生產與中國工人階級的形成)
ZHOU, Y. (PI), PUN, N. (CoI), FLORENCE, É. (CoI) & CHEN, A. (CoI)
Research Grants Council (HKSAR)
1/01/25 → 31/12/27
Project: Grant Research
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Introduction: commoning as unthinkable politics: Hong Kong against hard times
ERNI, J. N. & PUN, N., 6 Jan 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cultural Studies. 11 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Editorial/Preface (Journal)
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Affording worker solidarity in motion: Theorising the intersection between social media and agential practices in the platform economy
ZHOU, Y. & PUN, N., Aug 2024, In: New Media and Society. 26, 8, p. 4885-4903 19 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
7 Citations (Scopus) -
China's Infrastructural Capitalism and Infrastructural Power of Labor : The Making of the Chinese Working Class
PUN, N., May 2024, In: Positions: asia critique. 32, 2, p. 341-369 29 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Prizes
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LU Research & Knowledge Transfer Fund Award 2023 (RGC Grant)
PUN, N. (Recipient), Sept 2023
Prize: Prize (CDCF)
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Activities
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Digital Intimacies: Young Women and Social Transformation in Globalizing Asia
NIRANJANA, T. (Speaker), PUN, N. (Moderator) & CASTILLO BAUTISTA, R. C. (Discussant)
1 Jun 2023Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
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Marx’s Theories and Beyond : Understanding Working-Class Solidarity in China
PUN, N. (Speaker)
11 Feb 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
PUN, N. (Speaker)
28 Apr 2022Activity: Talks or Presentations › Other Invited Talks or Presentations
Press/Media
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金記冰室黃大仙店欠租拖糧遭封舗!盤點24年8大拖糧事件簿影視界建造業受關注 Lingnan survey shows over 60% of film and TV industry workers experience wage defaults
22/11/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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走進中大女工合作小賣店 What we could learn from a woman’s co-op shop
30/07/24
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Commentaries
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同等工作 保障欠奉 自由職業者有權Say No? Prof Pun Ngai comments on freelancers’ rights in Hong Kong
14/07/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer