Ivan Franceschini is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Australian Center on China in the World, the Australian National University, and at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on labor and civil society in China and Cambodia. He is co-editor of Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights and one of the chief editors of the website Chinoiresie.
Last Updated: December 12, 2017
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Is Chinese Investment Good for Workers?
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