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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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Creating urban commons with the youth: A pilot training scheme
PUN, N., LEUNG, S. C. & YAU, H. Y.
1/11/21 → 31/12/22
Project: Other Knowledge Transfer
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Research output
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Confronting global infrastructural capitalism: the triple logic of the 'vanguard' and its inevitable spatial and class contradictions in China's high-speed rail program
PUN, N. & CHEN, P., 11 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cultural Studies. 22 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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Enjoying the fruit of development? Working conditions and the earnings of low-skilled internal migrants in China across two decades (1993–2015)
WANG, J. S-H., LIN, J. & PUN, N., 20 May 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 29 p.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
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Marx’s Theories and Beyond: Understanding Working-Class Solidarity in China
PUN, N., 22 Jun 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Critical Sociology. 089692052211054.Research output: Journal Publications › Journal Article (refereed) › peer-review
Activities
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Marx’s Theories and Beyond : Understanding Working-Class Solidarity in China
Ngai PUN (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
Ngai PUN (Speaker)
7 Mar 2022Activity: Talks or Presentations › Public Lecture
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The 17th MCS Annual Symposium : Culture and Everyday Politics: Film, Music, Drama
潘毅 (Moderator), 梁文道 (Commentator), 陳紫嫣 (Speaker), 劉立楠 (Speaker) & 張耀基 (Speaker)
26 Jun 2021Activity: Involvement in Scholarly Events › Other Participation at Scholarly Events
Press / Media
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In Shanghai, a homeless woman confined herself to a telephone booth for a month
5/05/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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In Shanghai, a woman locked herself in a phone booth for a month
5/05/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer
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Shanghai Woman Lived In A Phone Booth For A Month During COVID Lockdown
4/05/22
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research / Knowledge Transfer