What is Global China?

How can we understand and study the Global China phenomenon? What makes China’s global activities different from previous periods, and is Global China really that exceptional? To learn more, watch our newest interview with Professor Ching Kwan Lee. Ching Kwan Lee is a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She wrote three award-winning texts on China’s turn to capitalism: Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women (1998), Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt (2007), and The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa (2017), with the latter focusing on China’s increasing global engagement with countries around the world.