Factory Girls
From Village to City in a Changing China
Recommended by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #14 in China, Ranked #19 in China History — see more rankings.
China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China’s Pearl River Delta. more
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom I love the way it’s written, and the way that Chang blends her own life story in with it. She pairs the story of her family’s migration out of China to the United States, where she grew up, to the movement of young women from rural China to urban China today. And she sets up a parallel between the way that American cities were transformed by overseas immigrants who fuelled the American industrial rise, with the enormous migration today – that doesn’t involve crossing an ocean or leaving one country for another – of rural dwellers to the world of Chinese cities. I also love the way she brings... (Source)
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- #74 in Chinese
- #30 in Chinese History
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