Yige Dong is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Gender & Sexuality Studies at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She co-authored ‘What is made-in-China feminism (s)? Gender discontent and class friction in post-socialist China’ with Angela Xiao Wu (Critical Asian Studies, 2019), and she is working on her first book-length monograph tentatively titled ‘The Fabric of Care: Women’s Work and the Political Economy of Industrial China’.
This article first appeared in Soundings Number 79 ‘Connecting Movements’ (Winter 2021).
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