Ivan Franceschini is a Lecturer and Deputy Director at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne. He is a founder and co-editor of the Made in China Journal and The People’s Map of Global China / Global China Pulse. He is a co-author of Scam: Inside Southeast Asia’s Cybercrime Compounds (Verso, 2025). His previous books include Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi (ANU Press and Verso Books, 2019), Xinjiang Year Zero (ANU Press, 2021), Proletarian China: A Century of Chinese Labour (Verso Books, 2022), and Global China as Method (Cambridge University Press, 2022). With Tommaso Facchin, he co-directed the documentaries Dreamwork China (2011) and Boramey: Ghosts in the Factory (2021).