Published: December 6th, 2023,
Last updated: May 30th, 2025
China’s lower class is experiencing increasingly precarious conditions, says Oxford professor Margaret Hillenbrand. Students without job prospects, delivery drivers or migrant workers – all of them are living on the brink of exclusion, explains the researcher in a conversation with Amelie Richter.
Professor Hillenbrand, you are writing about precarity in China. Can you give us a short overview of your book?