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.
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.
这几天看的两本书,张彤和著“factory girls” 以及吴飞著“浮生取义”,蓦然想来也有相似之处。两人都有中美两地的生活背景,两人都花了数年时间和当地人在一起,做了详实的观察,写作关于乡村人们的生活。 张彤和写她的家族,出生望族的祖父,留学返来,工业报国。落到政治...
评分1. 当华尔街日报的叙事风格成为一种刻意的模仿,事实本身就失去了它本该具有的力量。 2. 何伟观察中国是在充分意识到自我的他者身份的同情之解读,而这本书只是在用作者的自我构建一个想象中的国度。 这次豆娘居然没说我的评论太短……
评分我们这一代人终将感到悔恨,不仅仅因为坏人的可憎言行,更因为好人的可怕沉默。 ——马丁·路德·金《伯明翰狱中书信》 这本书除了讲在工厂打工的女孩的人生经历,也讲了一些很少被人提及的底层生活图景,如坐台小姐的工作、...
评分“我所认识的工厂女孩从未因为自己生为女孩就埋怨上苍。父母也许更喜欢儿子,老板也许更喜欢漂亮的女秘书,招聘广告也许会有公开的性别歧视,然而工厂女孩都从容地对待着这些不公。在东莞超过三年的时间里,我从未听到任何一个人像女权主义者那样表达自己的情绪。也许她们认为...
评分1. 当华尔街日报的叙事风格成为一种刻意的模仿,事实本身就失去了它本该具有的力量。 2. 何伟观察中国是在充分意识到自我的他者身份的同情之解读,而这本书只是在用作者的自我构建一个想象中的国度。 这次豆娘居然没说我的评论太短……
最初是在《读库》还是九点上看过节选
评分Peter Hessler(何伟)和Leslie Chang夫妇的四本书(何伟三部:River Town《江城》、Oracle Bones《甲骨文》、Country Driving《寻路中国》加上这本)全部读毕,质量皆属上乘。据悉夫妇二人即将前往埃及,继续奋斗在第三世界。
评分应该把这个改编成电视剧,像当年的外来妹一样
评分应该把这个改编成电视剧,像当年的外来妹一样
评分2012-04-03 到2013-01-01. 一开始觉得很无趣, 中间有一段写得真是漂亮, 后面又很无聊- 对于我这个中国人来说她写了太多常识了. 不过从另一个角度, 上学期学的讲美国梦的课然后假期看完这本讲中国的Immigrant workers的书非常合适.
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