Educated at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (BSSc in Sociology) and the University of Hong Kong (MPhil in Sociology), she was a Reid Research Scholar while pursuing a PhD at the University of London (2014). Her recent articles have appeared in Current Sociology, Modern China, Human Relations, Critical Asian Studies, Global Labour Journal, The Asia-Pacific Journal, The South Atlantic Quarterly, New Labor Forum, Labor Notes, New Internationalist, New Technology, Work and Employment, and SACOM (Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior). Between 2014 and 2018, she serves as Board Member of International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 44 on Labor Movements. She is writing her first book provisionally entitled Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and a New Generation of Chinese Workers (co-authored with PUN Ngai and Mark SELDEN).