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.
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.
發表於2024-11-02
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(吐槽:排名前幾的差評全是在扯淡,評論的齣發點完全背離瞭作者寫作的齣發點。) 首先,必須承認這本書的局限性。書中的兩個女孩絕對不能夠代錶整個務工群體,再有,能夠同意讓一個外國記者進入自己生活的打工女孩也絕對是個例。更多的人還是像作者最初在廣場上遇到的那兩個...
評分這幾天看的兩本書,張彤和著“factory girls” 以及吳飛著“浮生取義”,驀然想來也有相似之處。兩人都有中美兩地的生活背景,兩人都花瞭數年時間和當地人在一起,做瞭詳實的觀察,寫作關於鄉村人們的生活。 張彤和寫她的傢族,齣生望族的祖父,留學返來,工業報國。落到政治...
評分我至今都無法忘記2011年的某個早上9點不到在陝西南路地鐵站裏發生的情景。 那是一個上海最普通的上班早高峰,時間接近9點,人流緊張、擁擠地從車廂湧齣趕往市中心寫字樓。陝西南路地鐵站颱上一個20多歲的男性農民工坐在站颱的地闆上,背靠著一根柱子,身邊放著一個碩大的三色...
評分時隔多年,為瞭寫作《1968,撞擊世界的年代》,馬剋科蘭斯基翻閱瞭幾乎所有1968年報刊。他做齣結論: 公平是可能的,但真正的客觀則是不可能的。1968年的美國媒體以客觀自居,它隻是沒覺察齣自己有多麼主觀。 此言不虛。在以標榜“客觀真實”和“我隻記錄我看到聽到的”為職業...
評分【把評價放在瞭解的後麵】 任何一種記錄都必定是主觀的:麵對信息量無限大的世界,對材料的觀察、選擇、呈現,每一個環節都無可避免地帶著記錄者的主觀價值取嚮。所謂客觀,指的是描述的事實能夠同樣被其他人觀察到,錶達的價值能夠被更多的人認同。因此,寫作者所追求的客觀...
圖書標籤: 中國紀實 社會學 中國 社會 紀實 女工 張彤禾 外文原版
感覺很奇怪,不太喜歡......
評分冇讀完。
評分沒想到看完之後和那些打工女孩心有戚戚。
評分盡管作者一直試圖避免先入為主的評價與論斷,但那些頗引人警醒的段落裏,常常蘊藏著一種簡單直白的對比:個人主義的自我奮鬥與集體主義的隱忍緘默。個人贊同作者將集體的沉默與遺忘視為中國曆史無根搖擺的癥結所在。個體生命的多姿在於其有血有肉的情感與豐富立體的性格,壓抑個體之不同的文化是東莞工廠或奧威爾寓言式的吞噬。然而,如果說具有集體特性的文化本身就具有腐壞的性質我亦難苟同。無論是齣於文化的根深蒂固還是思維慣性,我都不免從心底某個至深的角落驚詫——希望個體的生命能夠為社會或集體有所貢獻真的如此不可思議而值得同情嗎?另一方麵,讀瞭英文版便不難理解大陸為何會以“和全書主要內容沒太大關係”為由刪節有關作者傢族曆史的章節,“恰到好處”的諷刺總是讓試圖在其間尋找光明的人啞口無言。
評分冇讀完。
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