Huaiyin Li, with Jenny Chan
20 March 2024
Made in China Journal
Huaiyin Li
Huaiyin Li, PhD (UCLA), is Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Village Governance in North China, 1875–1936 (Stanford University Press, 2005), Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948–2008 (Stanford University Press, 2009), Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing (University of Hawai`i Press, 2013), The Making of the Modern Chinese State, 1600–1950 (Routledge, 2020), and The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949–2019 (Stanford University Press, 2023). He is also editor of the Brill book series ‘Rethinking Socialism and Reform in China’ and ‘Historical Studies of Contemporary China’.
Jenny Chan
Jenny Chan is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an elected vice-president (2018–23) of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements. She is the co-author, with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai, of Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers (2020), which was translated into Korean (2021) and awarded CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Title on China (2022) and Outstanding Academic Title in Work and Labor (2022). She researches labour and state–society relations in China’s global transformation.
Dying for an iPhone 