Articles & Book Chapters
Dong, Yige. 2022. “The Dilemma of Foxconn Moms: Social Reproduction and the Rise of ‘Gig Manufacturing’ in China,” Critical Sociology, 0(0). [OnlineFirst here; accepted version available here]
- 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]
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. 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 Last Generation: Why China’s Youth Are Deciding Against Having Children,” Asia Society Policy Institute, Jan 2023.
Dong, Yige. 2019. “Does China Have a Feminist Movement from the Left?” Made in China Journal, 4 (1): 58-63.
Andreas, Joel and Yige Dong, 2018. “The Brief, Tumultuous History of ‘Big Democracy’ in China’s Factories,” Modern China, 44 (5): 455-496.
Dong, Yige. 2018. “The Gender Question in the New PRC History Studies,” Tsinghua Sociological Review, 8: 43-59. [in Chinese]
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.
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. 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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