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Online Event Book Talk: Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of China’s Workers Jenny Chan, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University  Mark Selden, Senior Research Associate in the East Asia Program, Cornell University, and at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Moderated by: Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work; Director, China Center for Social Policy This book talk focuses on the life and death struggles of a new generation of Chinese workers who produce our iPhones, Kindles, and Xboxes. Between the rash of employee suicides in 2010 and the outbreak of coronavirus at the end of 2019, my colleagues and I engaged with Foxconn workers through interviews as well as their shared poems, songs, open letters, photos, and videos, supplemented with meetings with managers and government officials. Taiwanese-owned Foxconn is the world’s largest electronics manufacturer and China’s largest exporter. During the period of

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