This public lecture introduces to our ACM faculty and students Dr. Lin Zhang and her new book, The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy, published earlier this year by Columbia University Press. This book traces the rise of internet-based entrepreneurship in China against the backdrop of global financial crises, the US-China trade war, and the Covid-19 pandemic. Telling stories about three groups of digital entrepreneurs and labourers, the book sheds valuable light global digital capitalism and platform economies in East Asia.
Dr. Zhang is an associate professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire. Her research centers on information capitalism, platform studies, and intersectionality, focusing on China and ethnic Asian people in a global, comparative context and in spaces of transnational encounters.
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