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2024-11-25
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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
冇讀完。
評分2012-04-03 到2013-01-01. 一開始覺得很無趣, 中間有一段寫得真是漂亮, 後麵又很無聊- 對於我這個中國人來說她寫瞭太多常識瞭. 不過從另一個角度, 上學期學的講美國夢的課然後假期看完這本講中國的Immigrant workers的書非常閤適.
評分天涯水平。為什麼從廉思的地攤文學《蟻族》到這種都能標記“社會學”。
評分應該把這個改編成電視劇,像當年的外來妹一樣
評分作者當時就住在我現在的住所附近……好奇妙的感覺。
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