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.
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(吐槽:排名前几的差评全是在扯淡,评论的出发点完全背离了作者写作的出发点。) 首先,必须承认这本书的局限性。书中的两个女孩绝对不能够代表整个务工群体,再有,能够同意让一个外国记者进入自己生活的打工女孩也绝对是个例。更多的人还是像作者最初在广场上遇到的那两个...
評分 評分 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、...
詳細真實的社會調查加上傢族史,非常好看。具體的看到一個個農村齣來的女孩子來到珠三角叢林麵對每棵樹後頭都躲著肉食動物的環境如何生存,也切實的看到政府怎樣大撒把,收瞭稅不提供任何服務,也是中國特色吧
评分沒想到看完之後和那些打工女孩心有戚戚。
评分和Peter Hessler的筆調很相似,也是典型的《紐約客》風格,個人視角齣發的鬆散敘事加上偶爾的議論點綴其間。豆瓣上多苛評,大都認為此書缺乏深度以及有太鮮明的西方視角,其實都是不瞭解這類寫作的特性。這本不是揭露,也沒想要解答什麼,隻是通過展現細膩的畫麵,以平等的姿態帶領讀者去細心體察一個不熟悉的世界。寫當代中國的書很少關注底層百姓的生活,中文著作尤其少。本書的寫作已是非常齣色瞭。加上Leslie Chang本人也有著豐富的經曆和麯摺的思想曆程,這使此書又多一層值得關注的地方。
评分作者當時就住在我現在的住所附近……好奇妙的感覺。
评分天涯水平。為什麼從廉思的地攤文學《蟻族》到這種都能標記“社會學”。
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