具体描述
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.
作者简介
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.
目录信息
1 Going Out 3
2 The City 17
3 To Die Poor Is a Sin 44
4 The Talent Market 72
5 Factory Girls 98
6 The Stele with No Name 120
7 Square and Round 171
8 Eight-Minute Date 206
9 Assembly-Line English 246
Pt. 2 The Village
10 The Village 269
11 The Historian in My Family 303
12 The South China Mall 334
13 Love and Money 360
14 The Tomb of the Emperor 377
15 Perfect Health 388
Sources 409
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读后感
1）潘毅、丁燕、张彤禾分别是社会学家、作家以及记者，从她们的写作中可以看到职业惯性对观察点的不同。潘毅更擅长透过一些侧面和细节总结理论，丁燕会讲语言较美的故事，张彤禾喜欢根据个人轨迹分析社会状态。她们三人的解读各有所长，都是很好的了解女工群体的资料。 2）潘...
评分中文版序言里说“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...
评分1）潘毅、丁燕、张彤禾分别是社会学家、作家以及记者，从她们的写作中可以看到职业惯性对观察点的不同。潘毅更擅长透过一些侧面和细节总结理论，丁燕会讲语言较美的故事，张彤禾喜欢根据个人轨迹分析社会状态。她们三人的解读各有所长，都是很好的了解女工群体的资料。 2）潘...
用户评价
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。
评分角度切入是好的，也很有话题性。只不过一切都不痛不痒。
评分没想到看完之后和那些打工女孩心有戚戚。
评分尽管作者一直试图避免先入为主的评价与论断，但那些颇引人警醒的段落里，常常蕴藏着一种简单直白的对比：个人主义的自我奋斗与集体主义的隐忍缄默。个人赞同作者将集体的沉默与遗忘视为中国历史无根摇摆的症结所在。个体生命的多姿在于其有血有肉的情感与丰富立体的性格，压抑个体之不同的文化是东莞工厂或奥威尔寓言式的吞噬。然而，如果说具有集体特性的文化本身就具有腐坏的性质我亦难苟同。无论是出于文化的根深蒂固还是思维惯性，我都不免从心底某个至深的角落惊诧——希望个体的生命能够为社会或集体有所贡献真的如此不可思议而值得同情吗？另一方面，读了英文版便不难理解大陆为何会以“和全书主要内容没太大关系”为由删节有关作者家族历史的章节，“恰到好处”的讽刺总是让试图在其间寻找光明的人哑口无言。
评分三星半。双线叙事相当好看，Chunming和作者祖父的日记都很有趣。很难得作者作为记者十分真诚，毫不故作姿态。主线张力是the pull of family and to go out and to make a new life，不过结尾的时候立场一下子太明确就不好玩儿啦。
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