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Factory Girls : From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 wo

Who reads Factory Girls : From Village to City in a Changing China?

Author

Leslie T. Chang

Publisher

Spiegel & Grau

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385520171

Category

history

Subjects

Anthropology, Economics, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.89 / 5 (5,560 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14