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Hao Wang

London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

Hao Wang is a third-year Ph.D. candidate from the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Sciences. His Ph.D. project looks at working temporalities in China’s tech zones and scientific parks and critically examines these temporalities in relation to the discourse of “China Speed”. Broadly, his research interests include everyday politics, space and time theories, the phenomenology of work, post-colonial theories, and the popular affect of digital capitalism.

SATURDAY (GMT+3) 1 June 2024

“Work-Life Balance” Never Promised: Imbrication, Subordination, and Extension of Working Temporality among Platform Workers in Urban China