Dreams and Defiance in Foxconn City An Interview with Jenny Chan
By Mark Levinson
Dissent (Spring 2021) is out now!
Link to the website : https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/another-lost-decade
“China is Trying to Make Policy Moves that Won’t Shake the World”
16 March 2021
Showtime for Xi as China’s annual Congress opens
4 March 2021 By DIANA FU (03/04/2021 08:29 AM EST)
“Il vero volto della Cina: la prefazione del nuovo volume di Wired”
English: “The true face of China: the preface of the new volume of Wired”
Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Federico Bona for Wired, in “Il Robot Disoccupato” [The Robot Unemployed].
Number 94, Autumn (October – December) 2020.
Pp. 50-51 (Il vero volto della Cina / The true face of China)
Dr Jenny Chan featured on Faculti
1 Feb 2021
Total run time: 15:09
“Precariat Unite! The Gig Economy Challenges China’s State-Run Labour Unions.”
27 January
Dr Jenny Chan interviewed by Sue-Lin Wong for The Economist
“In China, Tech-Worker Deaths Spark Online Backlash“
17 January 2021
Interviewed by Sha Hua for The Wall Street Journal
CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE INTERVIEW (English Version)
“中国科技公司一连串员工死亡事件引发网络声讨“
2021年1月17日
华沙, 华尔街日报
“Chinese Courier Sets Fire to Himself in Protest Over Unpaid Alibaba Wages
12 January 2021
Interviewed by Yuan Yang and Ryan McMorrow (with Nian Liu) for The Financial Times
“China’s Frustrated Millennials Turn to Memes to Rail against Grim Economic Prospects”
21 November 2020
Interviewed with Dr Jenny Chan by Ji Siqi for The South China Morning Post
“China’s Frustrated Millennials Turn to Memes to Rail against Grim Economic Prospects”
“Jenny Chan on Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of Chinese Workers,” 3 October 2020.
3 October 2020
Interviewed by Russell Mokhiber for Corporate Crime Reporter (Washington, D.C.)
Tech Wont’ Save Us, 2020
17 September 2020
“How Foxconn Treats the Workers Who Built Your iPhone w/ Jenny Chan,”
Interviewer: Paris Marx
Interviewee: Dr Jenny Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
(total run time: 50 mins 22 secs)
‘El lado oscuro de los productos de Apple: el drama de los suicidios en China.’
2 August 2020
By Salvador Martínez Mas , NIUS
(English: The dark side of Apple products: the suicide drama in China)
“The lining highlights the perfection of Apple / But not our tomorrow / The scanner repeatedly announces ‘OK’ / But not the ‘Error’ of our hearts / 24 hours a day, blinding lights illuminate iPhones / Stirring our days and nights / Thousands of repeated movements do an impeccable job / Testing the limits of our aching, numb shoulders / Each screwdriver turns carefully / But it cannot turn our future around ” .
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‘Dying for an iPhone’: The human cost of Apple’s high-speed production demands
By RHODA KWAN 12:00, 29 AUGUST 2020
In 2010, 18 young workers at Foxconn factories in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen tried to commit suicide by jumping off the roof, according to researchers. Fourteen died and three survived. The youngest jumper was aged 17.
The spate of suicides sparked a decade-long investigation by the team of researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This led to a book, Dying for an iPhone, written by Jenny Chan, Mark Selden and Pun Ngai and published this summer.
Undercover investigations
Chan and her team went undercover at Foxconn factories, donning the company uniform and borrowing staff cards to assess conditions in venues such as workers’ canteens and dormitories, and some production workshops.
