Ching Kwan Lee is a professor of sociology at UCLA, with a research focus on political sociology, labor, development, global China and global South. She is the author of three award-winning monographs on contemporary 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). A recipient of the Distinguished Career in Political Sociology Award by the American Sociological Association, her most recent book is Forever Hong Kong: A Global City’s Decolonization Struggle (2025).