Jenny Chan

Jenny Chan is an assistant professor of sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a recipient of Early Career Scheme funding (2018-2020) awarded by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (ref. 25602517). Prior to joining the university, she was a lecturer of sociology and contemporary China studies at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and a junior research fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. She is the vice president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Labor Movements (2018-2022). "Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn and the Lives of China’s Workers" is her first coauthored book with Mark Selden and Pun Ngai.