An eye-opening and previously untold story, "Factory Girls" is
the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory
population in China.
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.
As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a never-before-seen picture
of migrant life--a world where nearly everyone is under thirty;
where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of
a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can
catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes
us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital,
movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are
fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where
students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after
day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back
to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the
poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave
home in the first place. Throughout this riveting portrait, Chang
also interweaves the story of her own family's migrations, within
China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of
reference for her investigation.
A book of global significance that provides new insight into China,
"Factory Girls" demonstrates how" "the mass movement from rural
villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming
Chinese society, much as immigration to America's shores remade our
own country a century ago.
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