Peer-reviewed Articles
Dong, Yige. 2024. “Red Housekeeping” in a Socialist Factory: Jiashu and Transforming Reproductive Labor in Urban China (1949–1962).” International Review of Social History. 2024:1-24. doi:10.1017/S0020859023000706
- Translated into Chinese, 一家社会主义工厂中的“红色家政”：中国城市中的家属与再生产劳动转型（1949—1962), 中国劳动趋势, May 1, 2024.
Dong, Yige. 2023. “The Dilemma of Foxconn Moms: Social Reproduction and the Rise of ‘Gig Manufacturing’ in China,” Critical Sociology, 49(7-8), 1231-1249. https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205221140927
- Distinguished Scholarly Article Award, Section on Labor & Labor Movements, American Sociological Association, 2023
- Outstanding Article Award, Section on Marxist Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2023
- Translated into Chinese, 富士康妈妈的困境：社会再生产和中国“零工制造”的崛起, 中国劳动趋势, August 14, 2023.
- Featured in “A Shrinking, Aging China May Have Backed Itself Into a Corner,” New York Times, Jan 18, 2023.
- Featured in “Are Exorbitant Bride Prices to Blame for a Bachelor Surplus Problem?” The China Project, Feb 14, 2023.
- Cited in “Inside three turbulent months at Foxconn’s iPhone factory,” Rest of World, Jan 31, 2023.
- Interview based on the research, “The Foxconn uprising in Zhengzhou,” Tempest, Dec 05, 2022. [translated in Italian] [translated in Hungarian]
Dong, Yige. 2020, “Spinners or Sitters? Regimes of Social Reproduction and Urban Chinese Workers’ Employment Choices,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 61, no. 2-3: 200-216. [full-text PDF]
Wu, Angela X. and Yige Dong, 2019. “What Is “Made-in-China Feminism(s)”? Gender Discontent and Class Friction in Post-Socialist China,” Critical Asian Studies, 51 (4).
- Cited by “The Sexual Revolution Behind China’s Demographic Crisis,” The Diplomat, April 24, 2024.
- Cited by “The Last Generation: Why China’s Youth Are Deciding Against Having Children,” Asia Society Policy Institute, Jan 2023.
Andreas, Joel and Yige Dong, 2018. “The Brief, Tumultuous History of ‘Big Democracy’ in China’s Factories,” Modern China, 44 (5): 455-496.
Andreas, Joel and Yige Dong, 2017. “Mass Supervision and the Bureaucratization of Governance in China,” in Vivienne Shue and Patricia Thornton eds., To Govern China: Evolving Practice of Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 123-152.
Invited Contributions
Dong, Yige. 2023. “Chinese Feminists Face Paradoxical State Policies,” Current History, 122 (845): 203–208.
- Reprinted, “Chinese Feminists Face Paradoxical State Policies,” International Viewpoint, Volume 583, August, 2023.
Dong, Yige. 2022. “Feminist Agitation inside Chinese Factories [in the 1920s],” in Ivan Franceschini and Christian Sorace eds., Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour, Verso: 129-137.
Dong, Yige. 2021. “The Crisis of Social Reproduction and ‘Made-in-China’ Feminism,” Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Issue 79: 10-23.
Dong, Yige. 2019. “Does China Have a Feminist Movement from the Left?” Made in China Journal, 4 (1): 58-63.
- Translated into Portuguese, in A Questão Chinesa
Dong, Yige. 2018. “The Gender Question in the New PRC History Studies,” Tsinghua Sociological Review, 8: 43-59. [in Chinese]
Dong, Yige. 2017. “Reflections on PRC History Studies from a Gender Perspective,” Journal of Chinese Women’s Studies, 143 (5): 20-25. [in Chinese]
Dong, Yige. 2017. “How Chinese Students Become Nationalist: Their American Experience and Transpacific Futures,” American Quarterly, 69 (3):559-567.
Dong, Yige. 2014. “Domestic Violence: The Mainstream Topic after the 1995 Conference,” China Development Brief, No. 61 (Fall Issue), 2014.
Dong, Yige. 2014. “The Rise and Fall of the Anti-Domestic Violence Network,” China Development Brief, No. 61 (Fall Issue), 2014.
Book Reviews
Dong, Yige. 2025. The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China. written by Kimberley Ens Manning (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2023), The Journal of Development Studies.1–3.
Dong, Yige. 2022. Red Silk: Class, Gender, and Revolution in China’s Yangzi Delta Silk Industry, written by Robert Cliver (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2020), PRC History Review Book Review Series No. 50, November 2022.
Dong, Yige. 2019. Nangong, nügong: Dangdai Zhongguo nongmingong de xingbie, jiating yu qianyi.男工、女工：當代中國農民工的性別、家庭與遷移 (Factory boys, factory girls: Gender, family and the migration of rural people in contemporary China), written by Du Ping 杜平, 2017, NAN NÜ, 21(2), 355-358.
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