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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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When Crisis of Work Meets Crisis of Care: "Full-Time Children" as a Cultural Phenomenon
PUN, N. (PI) & NA, Y. V. (CoI)
LU Research Committee, LU Research Committee (Dept/Unit)
1/06/25 → 31/12/26
Project: Grant Research
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Empowering Youth as future leaders of Sustainability
PUN, N. (PI)
1/03/25 → 28/02/26
Project: Social Projects
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Commoning the Circular Economy: A Study of Repair Practices in the Greater Bay Area
1/01/25 → 31/12/26
Project: Grant Research
Research output
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Commoning : 社群共造和共享空間 (增潤版)
潘毅 (Editor) & 周亮 (Editor), Apr 2025, 香港: 手民出版社. 200 p.Research output: Scholarly Books | Reports | Literary Works › Book (Editor) › Profession › peer-review
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Critique of creative labour: indebtedness and subsumption of labour in Hong Kong’s filmmaking industry
PUN, N. & YANG, H., 30 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Dialectical Anthropology.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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Elephant in the room: commoning as an embedded method of cultural studies
PUN, N. & YANG, G.C.-Y., 2025, In: Cultural Studies. 39, 3, p. 316-333 18 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
Open Access
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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Reconceptualizing Youth Poverty through the Lens of Precarious Employment in Global Pandemic Period
PUN, N. (Speaker) & CHEN, P. (Speaker)
16 Dec 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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AI解讀14萬則招聘廣告 關稅戰衝擊 勞工點自救?Lingnan University’s study shows 40 per cent of job vacancies in Hong Kong in traditional service industries Rise in gig employment amid lagging adoption of advanced technologies
11/05/25
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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