Shan HUANG
Part-time Lecturer
PhD in Chinese Studies Research and Sociology, King's College London, UK, 2023
MSc in Sociology, University of Bristol, UK, 2015
Bachelor of Laws in Sociology, China Agricultural University, China, 2014
Dr Shan Huang completed her PhD in Chinese Studies and Sociology at King’s College London. Her research centres on workers and economic restructuring in contemporary China. Prior to her current role, she held a postdoctoral position at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where she worked on projects examining cross-border collaboration between Hong Kong and Mainland China. Before returning to academia, she served as a Business Analyst at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Headquarters in New York. Her ongoing work focuses on the digital economy and platform-based labour, with particular interest in emergent labour regimes and new forms of precarity within the Chinese context.
Research Interests:
- Labour Studies
- Economic Transformation
- Technological Development
- The Greater Bay Area
- Contemporary China
Representative Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
| 2023 | Huang, Shan. The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s-2010s: Demystifying China’s society and social classes under the post-Mao Era. Jan 20th, 2023, published by Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20454-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20455-5. |
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
| 2026 | Huang, Shan. Chinese State-Owned Enterprise Workers at the Margins: Evidence from a Sichuan Case Study. July 9th 2026, Journal of Contemporary China. ISSN: 1067-0564. https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2026.2699730. |
| 2026 | Huang, Shan. The Formation and Transformation of Modern China’s Industrial and Social Structures and the Logic of Sinified Marxism. June 17th 2026, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (2026). ISSN 2662-9992 (online). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-07962-x. |
| 2026 | Huang, Shan. Constructing a Sustainable Cross-Border Scientific Research Collaboration System: Insights from Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaboration. Co-author: Professor Lu Haitian. Jan 28th, 2026, Sustainability, 18(3), 1315. ISSN 2071-1050. https://doi.org/10.3390/su18031315. |
Courses Offered
| CHES5136 | Hong Kong in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area |