Understanding the making of the new Chinese working-class: Multiple identities, everyday life, new ICTs practice and the articulation of migrant subjectivities
Research Interests: Yang is interested in the everyday work and life of second-generation migrant factory workers (basically from the manufacturing sector) in China and looking at the intersection of new ICTs use and mediated/articulated workplace dynamics or labour process in Buraway's sense in Chinese manufacturing factories.
Supervisors: Professor Sonia Livingstone and Dr Bingchun Meng
Before joining LSE, Yang obtained an MA in Communication at Renmin University of China in Beijing. During his two years at Renmin University, Yang was also a visiting student in Taiwan for half a year where he studied public policy, history studies and Anthropology. Following this, Yang began work with the United Nations Development Programme in China for half a year, where I came to combine my interest in new ICTs and development.