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
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...
评分书里的三个打工妹几乎属于同一类人：有野心、很幸运、小有成功。这类人在打工妹的比例中并不高。残酷的竞争和资源匮乏，最终会使大多数打工者败下阵来，变成甘受命运摆布的人。而且她们奋斗的时间越久，就越发现自己回不了家。甚至觉得在城市生活潦倒也比一辈子滞留在单调乏味...
评分 评分时隔多年，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...
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...
用户评价
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。
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。
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.
评分和Peter Hessler的笔调很相似，也是典型的《纽约客》风格，个人视角出发的松散叙事加上偶尔的议论点缀其间。豆瓣上多苛评，大都认为此书缺乏深度以及有太鲜明的西方视角，其实都是不了解这类写作的特性。这本不是揭露，也没想要解答什么，只是通过展现细腻的画面，以平等的姿态带领读者去细心体察一个不熟悉的世界。写当代中国的书很少关注底层百姓的生活，中文著作尤其少。本书的写作已是非常出色了。加上Leslie Chang本人也有着丰富的经历和曲折的思想历程，这使此书又多一层值得关注的地方。
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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