She got her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include ICTs and development, political economy of global communication, China's information and communications industry, and information labor. Currently, she is examining China's efforts of economic restructuring in relation to the development of information and communication technology industries. Her first book, Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development (Lexington Books, 2011), explores China's evolving class relations in the ICT sector as China has become a global ICT manufacturing powerhouse. Her peer-reviewed articles appeared in the International Journal of Communication, Javnost-The Public, Chinese Journal of Communication, and Work, Organisation, Labour & Globalization. Prior to coming to USC, Yu Hong taught courses at Mulenberg College.