Projects per year
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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Platform commons as an alternative future? A comparative study of Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan
LU, M. (PI), PUN, N. (CoI), CHOI, W. Y. K. (CoI), ZHOU, Y. (CoI) & QIU, J. L. (CoI)
1/05/24 → 30/04/26
Project: Grant Research
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Cultivating worker communities among themselves: digital technologies, platform workers, and participatory culture in China ( 培育工人社区:中国的数字技术、平台工作者与参与性文化)
PUN, N. (PI), QIU, J. L. (CoI), ZHOU, Y. (CoI) & SUN, P. (CoI)
1/01/24 → 31/12/26
Project: Grant Research
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Creating Youth Commons: Supporting Deprived Youth
PUN, N. (PI)
1/11/22 → 31/10/25
Project: Grant Research
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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
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Dialogue with Antonio Negri : A Few Thoughts on the Lecture “Metropolis as a Post-Industrial Factory”
PUN, N., 4 Jan 2024, In: TripleC. 22, 1, p. 454-459 6 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Comment / Debate › Research
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iCOOP puzzle: localistic practices, internationalism values, and Fair Trade in South Korea’s cooperative movement
JEON, J. & PUN, N., 2024, In: Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. 25, 3, p. 305-321 17 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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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Youth Work, Prosocial Behaviour, and Micro-Foundation of Working-Class Solidarity in China
PUN, N. (Speaker)
7 Mar 2022Activity: Talks or Presentations › Public Lecture
Press/Media
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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
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