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2024-06-24
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我們這一代人終將感到悔恨,不僅僅因為壞人的可憎言行,更因為好人的可怕沉默。 ——馬丁·路德·金《伯明翰獄中書信》 這本書除瞭講在工廠打工的女孩的人生經曆,也講瞭一些很少被人提及的底層生活圖景,如坐颱小姐的工作、...
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評分圖書標籤: 中國紀實 社會學 中國 社會 紀實 女工 張彤禾 外文原版
許多段落和句子有纍贅之嫌,結構顯得略混亂,幾度讀得不耐煩。事實不偏,但還是看得齣角度的主觀。中譯本被刪掉的有關她傢族史的章節相當吸引人!幾乎成為全書我最愛的部分。還是她老公寫得好看些。
評分作者的祖父間接因硃令案最大犯罪嫌疑人孫維的爺爺孫越崎而死。孫傢真是……嗬嗬嗬嗬
評分應該把這個改編成電視劇,像當年的外來妹一樣
評分最初是在《讀庫》還是九點上看過節選
評分跟country driving的peter hessler相比,這位作者似乎更缺乏同情心,對中國的現狀更加厭惡?兩人都試圖把中國的情況做某種比方讓西方(美國)讀者更理解,不過兩人選擇的比喻undertone卻是很不同。關於作者傢庭的故事跟factory girls毫無關係,穿插的非常勉強。人物的故事不知道為什麼不是從頭講到尾而是挑來跳去的。
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