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.
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.
花了一个星期读完。老实说,最初买它,是因为写它的作者是何伟的老婆。何伟就是那个写了《江城》和《寻路中国》的家伙。在我有限的阅读经验中,像他那么认真,花大力气不停跟踪一个地方、采访的人不多。也是读他的书的时候,我想起了之前看过的《八月炮火》、《史迪威与美国在...
評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...
評分leslie交叉叙述着东莞的生活以及她自己的家族史。两条主线里,她也交叉叙述着人生线的两头,关于东莞女工,是出走的家乡与容身的城市,而对于她自己的家族史,是从台湾美国延伸出去的那一头以及深植华北土地的另一头。 在她记录东莞女工生活的过程中,她不断发现她们作为新时...
評分 評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...
應該把這個改編成電視劇,像當年的外來妹一樣
评分沒想到看完之後和那些打工女孩心有戚戚。
评分Vivid and earnest, though not very deep. The two deleted chapters in the Chinese version really highlight the book.
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。
评分又是一本我希望是我寫的書。She reminds me that it takes patience, research and love to write a good book.
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