Jenny Chan (Ph.D. 2014) is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 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 (Haymarket Books & Pluto Press, 2020), which was translated into Korean and received CHOICE’s awards for Outstanding Academic Title on China and Outstanding Academic Title in Work and Labour in 2022. She researches labour politics in contemporary Chinese political economy. She served as Vice President (2018–23) of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee of Labour Movements.

She is also a Member of the Sub-committee on “Community, Organization and Globalisation” Subjects (a Sub-committee of the Academic Planning and Regulations Committee), and a Management Committee Member of the China Research and Development Network, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Mark Selden’s work centers on the modern and contemporary geopolitics, political economy, history, and societies of China, Japan, Korea and the Asia-Pacific with particular attention to themes of war, peace, revolution, inequality, the environment, world social change and historical memory.

Since 2003 he has edited The Asia-Pacific Journal, a peer-reviewed on-line publication providing critical analysis of the forces shaping the Asia-Pacific and the world. The Journal explores the geopolitics, economics, history, society, culture, international relations and environment of the modern and contemporary Asia-Pacific region.

He lives in New York and can be contacted at mark.selden@cornell.edu.

Pun Ngai received her PhD from University of London, SOAS in 1998. She is the winner of 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.

She published extensively in the areas of sociology, anthropology, labor studies, China studies and cultural studies. Her articles appeared in ​Sociology, Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Current Sociology, Global Labor Journal, WES(Work, Employment and Society), The China Quarterly, Modern China, The China Journal, positions, Cultural Anthropology, Dialectical Anthropology and ICS(Information, Communication and Society).