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Factory Girls : From Village to City in a Changing China by Chang, Leslie T. is a nonfiction 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 words fl

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

Author

Chang, Leslie T.

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group;Spiegel & Grau

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385528528

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, History, Management

Rating

3.89 / 5 (193 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13