Factory Girls : From Village to City in a Changing China

from mom2acat

This book tells the story of the everyday lives of the workers in China's factories, the majority of whom are young women 18-25, who have left their rural villages in hope of a better life. The author also follows the lives of two of these young women over the course of three years of their lives...

from bezoar44

Author Leslie Chang explores the lives and attitudes of a handful of young Chinese women who have migrated from rural villages in the interior of the country to work in urban factories near the coast. A second, minor thread recounts Chang's own family's migrations. It's not initially clear how th...

from xiaomarlo

Very interesting! I learned a lot. Inevitably I find myself comparing her work to Peter Hessler's. Hers isn't as masterful, but then, he is kind of in a class of his own. This is definitely worth reading, particularly if you are wanting to learn about women's experience of factory towns in the 20...

from almigwin

This is a magnifying glass for the women (girls) who make the things we wear and use from China. The factories mentioned in this book are mostly in one place - Guangdong province. Yue Yuen in Dongguan is the biggest factory that makes running shoes. It employs 70,000 (seventy thousand) people. It...

from debnance

Chang spends three years in China, following the lives of several young women who have moved from rural China to find jobs and money and success and love in urban China. This is not the story I'd been expecting; city life turns out to be a big plus for most of the women in this book. Those for wh...