Tongyu Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3650641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tongyu Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tongyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zhejiang University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1184-4498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Erchen Decoction Exerts Anti-Colorectal Cancer Effects by Inhibiting Adcy2 Expression and Suppressing the cAMP/PKA Signaling Pathway
‘The harder you work, the luckier you get?’: Cruel optimism in rural students’ affective transitions into an elite Chinese university
This article draws on the concept of cruel optimism and narrative inquiry to explore how rural-background students in China affectively navigate the promises and contradictions of transitioning into an elite university. Conceptualizing meritocracy as an affective attachment, we examine how students remain invested in its promise even as shifting opportunity structures undermine its fulfillment. Our findings demonstrate that the interplay between …
‘Being a man isn't about standing above others’: Reworking Confucian masculinities in cross‐border transitions
This article theorises agency as a relational, improvisational practice through which masculinities are negotiated and reimagined in cross‐border higher education. Using narrative inquiry, it traces the journey of Jiaming, a Chinese doctoral student at an elite UK university, as he navigates Confucian legacies of family‐state masculinity while confronting racialised misrecognition and shifting enactments of nationalism. Drawing on the concept of …
Look East’ Without Deliverance from Crisis: Iran’s Policy Reorientation and the Predicament of Developing Countries
For developing countries, the pursuit of modernization has never been merely a question of ‘how to develop’. It has also been a process of struggling over ‘how to be seen, how to be understood, and...
From soil’: Rethinking rural knowledge, misrecognition, and identity negotiation in educational transitions
Soil Salinity Reduces Soil Carbon Storage Mainly by Decreasing Inorganic Carbon in the Ring Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China
Saline soil is an important inorganic carbon pool and is highly susceptible to environmental change. The Tarim Basin is the largest inland basin around the world, with saline land making up approximately 20% of its total area, while few research has been conducted on salt‐affected soil carbon density and its distribution in the region. To identify the effect of soil salinity on soil carbon density, we collected 135 soil profiles (0–100 cm), and c…
The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem
People with disabilities 1 in Asia are increasingly accessing new employment opportunities through artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platforms, such as food delivery and data annotation, which are often portrayed as pathways to economic empowerment. However, this article interrogates two key questions: what are the stakeholders within the platformised data annotation ecosystem, and how do their interactions shape the work–life experiences of in…
Resistance Discourse in Iran’s Foreign Policy: A Genealogy
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry
The rapid advancement of AI has led to increased reliance on data labeling workers, yet those with disabilities remain understudied in this context. This article applies critical disability studies and theory of accumulation by dispossession to analyze the dynamics within China’s data labeling industry. We examine the interplay among capital, central and local governments, Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs), and workers with disabilities in t…
Dancing with bonds: Embodied Transitions of Rural Students Into Higher Education
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA
As the two leading countries in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, China and the United States largely rely on separate AI infrastructure and data annotation ecosystems. Studies have focussed almost exclusively on data annotation associated with American and European companies, limiting our understanding of how this contrasts with the Chinese development of AI. This article provides a comparative analysis of the political ec…
Changes and Trends in the Current Relations Between Saudi Arabia and Israel
The relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel have become increasingly public after the Trump administration took office in the US. Particularly, Saudi Arabia either holds inconsistent, ambiguous attitudes or gives short shrift to sensitive issues such as Jerusalem issue and the ‘Deal of the Century.’ Moreover, Saudi Arabia and Israel have been interacting with each other frequently in a public and official way, which further embodies this change…
The labour of fun: Masculinities and the organisation of labour games in a modern workplace
The U.S. tech industry has been going through a re‐shuffling of labour forces, which destabilises the previous masculine structure. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic work and 46 interviews, this study finds that labour games have become a contested terrain where different groups of engineers promote their masculine selves. Brogrammers highlight their brogramming masculine habitus through initiating ‘pranking‐games’. Tech hobbyists embodied wit…
One store, two fates: Boundary work and service capital in China’s retail sector
How do collective identities gain salience in the workplace? How are new “capitals” created in the process? To answer these question, this study examines the confrontation of two distinctly positioned socio-economic groups that for the first time labor as co-workers in urban China, in a new type of workspace; the modern retail store. One group is the urban service proletariat, who struggle to earn a living in precarious service jobs but have lega…
The Deficient Worker: Skills, Identity, and Inequality in Service Employment
Skill is central to inequality in the workplace, as a basis of material reward and status recognition. While much research treats skill as a set of abilities possessed-or not-by a worker, scholars have yet to grasp the organizational processes whereby jobs come to be taken as rudimentary and the worker performing them unskilled and therefore deficient. To illuminate these processes, we travel to Beijing, China, where workers are loquacious about …
Laoxiang Network and Boundary Struggles: Urban Migrants’ Self-Organization in China’s New Workplaces
This article examines the confrontation between ‘new urban migrants’ and native urbanites who labor as co-workers in urban China for the first time, and its corresponding influence over the self-organizing strategies of ‘new urban migrants’ on the service work floor in urban centers. Drawing on data from 51 semi-structured interviews and three-months of ethnographic research in a retail work setting, the author identifies three mechanisms that co…
The labour of fun: Masculinities and the organisation of labour games in a modern workplace
The U.S. tech industry has been going through a re‐shuffling of labour forces, which destabilises the previous masculine structure. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic work and 46 interviews, this study finds that labour games have become a contested terrain where different groups of engineers promote their masculine selves. Brogrammers highlight their brogramming masculine habitus through initiating ‘pranking‐games’. Tech hobbyists embodied wit…
Resistance Discourse in Iran’s Foreign Policy: A Genealogy
Dancing with bonds: Embodied Transitions of Rural Students Into Higher Education
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA
As the two leading countries in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, China and the United States largely rely on separate AI infrastructure and data annotation ecosystems. Studies have focussed almost exclusively on data annotation associated with American and European companies, limiting our understanding of how this contrasts with the Chinese development of AI. This article provides a comparative analysis of the political ec…
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry
The rapid advancement of AI has led to increased reliance on data labeling workers, yet those with disabilities remain understudied in this context. This article applies critical disability studies and theory of accumulation by dispossession to analyze the dynamics within China’s data labeling industry. We examine the interplay among capital, central and local governments, Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs), and workers with disabilities in t…
Laoxiang Network and Boundary Struggles: Urban Migrants’ Self-Organization in China’s New Workplaces
This article examines the confrontation between ‘new urban migrants’ and native urbanites who labor as co-workers in urban China for the first time, and its corresponding influence over the self-organizing strategies of ‘new urban migrants’ on the service work floor in urban centers. Drawing on data from 51 semi-structured interviews and three-months of ethnographic research in a retail work setting, the author identifies three mechanisms that co…
Laoxiang Network and Boundary Struggles: Urban Migrants’ Self-Organization in China’s New Workplaces
This article examines the confrontation between ‘new urban migrants’ and native urbanites who labor as co-workers in urban China for the first time, and its corresponding influence over the self-organizing strategies of ‘new urban migrants’ on the service work floor in urban centers. Drawing on data from 51 semi-structured interviews and three-months of ethnographic research in a retail work setting, the author identifies three mechanisms that co…
One store, two fates: Boundary work and service capital in China’s retail sector
How do collective identities gain salience in the workplace? How are new “capitals” created in the process? To answer these question, this study examines the confrontation of two distinctly positioned socio-economic groups that for the first time labor as co-workers in urban China, in a new type of workspace; the modern retail store. One group is the urban service proletariat, who struggle to earn a living in precarious service jobs but have lega…
The Deficient Worker: Skills, Identity, and Inequality in Service Employment
Skill is central to inequality in the workplace, as a basis of material reward and status recognition. While much research treats skill as a set of abilities possessed-or not-by a worker, scholars have yet to grasp the organizational processes whereby jobs come to be taken as rudimentary and the worker performing them unskilled and therefore deficient. To illuminate these processes, we travel to Beijing, China, where workers are loquacious about …
The labour of fun: Masculinities and the organisation of labour games in a modern workplace
The U.S. tech industry has been going through a re‐shuffling of labour forces, which destabilises the previous masculine structure. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic work and 46 interviews, this study finds that labour games have become a contested terrain where different groups of engineers promote their masculine selves. Brogrammers highlight their brogramming masculine habitus through initiating ‘pranking‐games’. Tech hobbyists embodied wit…
Changes and Trends in the Current Relations Between Saudi Arabia and Israel
The relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel have become increasingly public after the Trump administration took office in the US. Particularly, Saudi Arabia either holds inconsistent, ambiguous attitudes or gives short shrift to sensitive issues such as Jerusalem issue and the ‘Deal of the Century.’ Moreover, Saudi Arabia and Israel have been interacting with each other frequently in a public and official way, which further embodies this change…
Soil Salinity Reduces Soil Carbon Storage Mainly by Decreasing Inorganic Carbon in the Ring Tarim Basin of Xinjiang, China
Saline soil is an important inorganic carbon pool and is highly susceptible to environmental change. The Tarim Basin is the largest inland basin around the world, with saline land making up approximately 20% of its total area, while few research has been conducted on salt‐affected soil carbon density and its distribution in the region. To identify the effect of soil salinity on soil carbon density, we collected 135 soil profiles (0–100 cm), and c…
The platformisation tree in China's AI data annotation ecosystem
People with disabilities 1 in Asia are increasingly accessing new employment opportunities through artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platforms, such as food delivery and data annotation, which are often portrayed as pathways to economic empowerment. However, this article interrogates two key questions: what are the stakeholders within the platformised data annotation ecosystem, and how do their interactions shape the work–life experiences of in…
Resistance Discourse in Iran’s Foreign Policy: A Genealogy
The space-time game: Workers with disabilities in China’s AI data labeling industry
The rapid advancement of AI has led to increased reliance on data labeling workers, yet those with disabilities remain understudied in this context. This article applies critical disability studies and theory of accumulation by dispossession to analyze the dynamics within China’s data labeling industry. We examine the interplay among capital, central and local governments, Disabled People’s Organizations (DPOs), and workers with disabilities in t…
Dancing with bonds: Embodied Transitions of Rural Students Into Higher Education
Global data empires: Analysing artificial intelligence data annotation in China and the USA
As the two leading countries in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems, China and the United States largely rely on separate AI infrastructure and data annotation ecosystems. Studies have focussed almost exclusively on data annotation associated with American and European companies, limiting our understanding of how this contrasts with the Chinese development of AI. This article provides a comparative analysis of the political ec…
Erchen Decoction Exerts Anti-Colorectal Cancer Effects by Inhibiting Adcy2 Expression and Suppressing the cAMP/PKA Signaling Pathway
‘The harder you work, the luckier you get?’: Cruel optimism in rural students’ affective transitions into an elite Chinese university
This article draws on the concept of cruel optimism and narrative inquiry to explore how rural-background students in China affectively navigate the promises and contradictions of transitioning into an elite university. Conceptualizing meritocracy as an affective attachment, we examine how students remain invested in its promise even as shifting opportunity structures undermine its fulfillment. Our findings demonstrate that the interplay between …
‘Being a man isn't about standing above others’: Reworking Confucian masculinities in cross‐border transitions
This article theorises agency as a relational, improvisational practice through which masculinities are negotiated and reimagined in cross‐border higher education. Using narrative inquiry, it traces the journey of Jiaming, a Chinese doctoral student at an elite UK university, as he navigates Confucian legacies of family‐state masculinity while confronting racialised misrecognition and shifting enactments of nationalism. Drawing on the concept of …
Look East’ Without Deliverance from Crisis: Iran’s Policy Reorientation and the Predicament of Developing Countries
For developing countries, the pursuit of modernization has never been merely a question of ‘how to develop’. It has also been a process of struggling over ‘how to be seen, how to be understood, and...
From soil’: Rethinking rural knowledge, misrecognition, and identity negotiation in educational transitions
Sociology (8 works) · China (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works)