Leslie T. Chang lived in China for a decade as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. She is married to Peter Hessler, who also writes about China. She lives in Colorado.
发表于2025-03-22
Factory Girls 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
回到家以后意外地在房间的书柜上找到了这本书,看扉页上的字迹,这应当是自己高一时的读过的一本书。已经记不太清自己当时出于什么样的目的买下了这本书,只记得当时读完了很震撼很心酸。 前不久毛老师提到了这本书,恍然间想起自己曾经读过,而在当时的我看来 这本书的内容与...
评分花了一个星期读完。老实说,最初买它,是因为写它的作者是何伟的老婆。何伟就是那个写了《江城》和《寻路中国》的家伙。在我有限的阅读经验中,像他那么认真,花大力气不停跟踪一个地方、采访的人不多。也是读他的书的时候,我想起了之前看过的《八月炮火》、《史迪威与美国在...
评分1)潘毅、丁燕、张彤禾分别是社会学家、作家以及记者,从她们的写作中可以看到职业惯性对观察点的不同。潘毅更擅长透过一些侧面和细节总结理论,丁燕会讲语言较美的故事,张彤禾喜欢根据个人轨迹分析社会状态。她们三人的解读各有所长,都是很好的了解女工群体的资料。 2)潘...
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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.
Vivid and earnest, though not very deep. The two deleted chapters in the Chinese version really highlight the book.
评分详细真实的社会调查加上家族史,非常好看。具体的看到一个个农村出来的女孩子来到珠三角丛林面对每棵树后头都躲着肉食动物的环境如何生存,也切实的看到政府怎样大撒把,收了税不提供任何服务,也是中国特色吧
评分尽管作者一直试图避免先入为主的评价与论断,但那些颇引人警醒的段落里,常常蕴藏着一种简单直白的对比:个人主义的自我奋斗与集体主义的隐忍缄默。个人赞同作者将集体的沉默与遗忘视为中国历史无根摇摆的症结所在。个体生命的多姿在于其有血有肉的情感与丰富立体的性格,压抑个体之不同的文化是东莞工厂或奥威尔寓言式的吞噬。然而,如果说具有集体特性的文化本身就具有腐坏的性质我亦难苟同。无论是出于文化的根深蒂固还是思维惯性,我都不免从心底某个至深的角落惊诧——希望个体的生命能够为社会或集体有所贡献真的如此不可思议而值得同情吗?另一方面,读了英文版便不难理解大陆为何会以“和全书主要内容没太大关系”为由删节有关作者家族历史的章节,“恰到好处”的讽刺总是让试图在其间寻找光明的人哑口无言。
评分最初是在《读库》还是九点上看过节选
评分和Peter Hessler的笔调很相似,也是典型的《纽约客》风格,个人视角出发的松散叙事加上偶尔的议论点缀其间。豆瓣上多苛评,大都认为此书缺乏深度以及有太鲜明的西方视角,其实都是不了解这类写作的特性。这本不是揭露,也没想要解答什么,只是通过展现细腻的画面,以平等的姿态带领读者去细心体察一个不熟悉的世界。写当代中国的书很少关注底层百姓的生活,中文著作尤其少。本书的写作已是非常出色了。加上Leslie Chang本人也有着丰富的经历和曲折的思想历程,这使此书又多一层值得关注的地方。
Factory Girls 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书