Rate My Professor Pun Ngai

Her research specializations encompass labour, migration, class, gender, commons, China, and Inter-Asia, with publications spanning cultural studies, China studies, labour studies, anthropology, and sociology. Pun Ngai has published extensively in leading journals including Positions, Public Culture, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Work, Employment and Society, The China Quarterly, Modern China, The China Journal, and Cultural Anthropology. Key books include Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace (Duke University Press, 2005), Dying for Apple: Foxconn and Chinese Workers (co-authored with Jenny Chan and Mark Selden, 2016), and Migrant Labor in Post-Socialist China (Polity Press, 2016). These works, along with her Chinese books 《中國女工》 (2007) and 《大工地上：中國農民工之歌》 (2011), have been widely adopted as required reading in universities across America, Europe, Asia, and translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, and Chinese. Major awards include the 2006 C. Wright Mills Award for Made in China—the first for an Asian scholar in the award's history—Hong Kong Ten Best Books Awards in 2007 and 2011, and recognition in Stanford University's World's Top 2% Scientists list, ranking second in Hong Kong for Cultural Studies. Recent publications address China's infrastructural capitalism, creative labour, and commoning practices.