 
			 
				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.
中文版序言里说“我了解生活在举目无亲的地方那种孤独漂泊的感觉;我亲身感受到人轻易就会消失不见。但我更理解那种全新开始生活的快乐和自由。”我纳闷了,美国中产阶级移民二代的无根感慨和中国乡下打工女孩们为了填饱肚子而漂泊到中国南方打工的辛酸经历是一回事么?作者甚...
評分时隔多年,为了写作《1968,撞击世界的年代》,马克科兰斯基翻阅了几乎所有1968年报刊。他做出结论: 公平是可能的,但真正的客观则是不可能的。1968年的美国媒体以客观自居,它只是没觉察出自己有多么主观。 此言不虚。在以标榜“客观真实”和“我只记录我看到听到的”为职业...
評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、...
評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、...
評分回到家以后意外地在房间的书柜上找到了这本书,看扉页上的字迹,这应当是自己高一时的读过的一本书。已经记不太清自己当时出于什么样的目的买下了这本书,只记得当时读完了很震撼很心酸。 前不久毛老师提到了这本书,恍然间想起自己曾经读过,而在当时的我看来 这本书的内容与...
沒想到看完之後和那些打工女孩心有戚戚。
评分用南周編輯@東方愚的話說:建議所有關注世界工廠話題的朋友們買本看看。作者Leslie T. Chang(張彤禾),是Peter Hessler(彼得 海斯勒)的老婆,這兩人的觀察力和文筆都很贊呀。
评分2012-04-03 到2013-01-01. 一開始覺得很無趣, 中間有一段寫得真是漂亮, 後麵又很無聊- 對於我這個中國人來說她寫瞭太多常識瞭. 不過從另一個角度, 上學期學的講美國夢的課然後假期看完這本講中國的Immigrant workers的書非常閤適.
评分感覺很奇怪,不太喜歡......
评分盡管作者一直試圖避免先入為主的評價與論斷,但那些頗引人警醒的段落裏,常常蘊藏著一種簡單直白的對比:個人主義的自我奮鬥與集體主義的隱忍緘默。個人贊同作者將集體的沉默與遺忘視為中國曆史無根搖擺的癥結所在。個體生命的多姿在於其有血有肉的情感與豐富立體的性格,壓抑個體之不同的文化是東莞工廠或奧威爾寓言式的吞噬。然而,如果說具有集體特性的文化本身就具有腐壞的性質我亦難苟同。無論是齣於文化的根深蒂固還是思維慣性,我都不免從心底某個至深的角落驚詫——希望個體的生命能夠為社會或集體有所貢獻真的如此不可思議而值得同情嗎?另一方麵,讀瞭英文版便不難理解大陸為何會以“和全書主要內容沒太大關係”為由刪節有關作者傢族曆史的章節,“恰到好處”的諷刺總是讓試圖在其間尋找光明的人啞口無言。
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