Factory Girls

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Leslie T. Chang lived in China for a decade as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, specializing in stories that explored how socioeconomic change is transforming institutions and individuals. Her first book, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, traces the lives of two young women from the countryside who work in a factory city in South China, interwoven with her own family history of migrations within China and to the West. The book was published in 2008 by Spiegel & Grau, a Random House imprint. Factory Girls was named a New York Times Notable Book and one of the best books of the year by many publications. Chang is a recipient of a PEN USA Literary Award and an Asian American Literary Award.

A graduate of Harvard University with a degree in American History and Literature, Chang has also worked as a journalist in the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. She was raised outside New York City by immigrant parents who forced her to attend Saturday-morning Chinese school, for which she is now grateful.

She and her husband, writer Peter Hessler, moved back to the United States in 2007. They live in a small town in southwestern Colorado that has one Chinese restaurant.

出版者:Random House Publishing Group
作者:Leslie T. Chang
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页数:420
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出版时间:2009-8-4
价格:USD 16.00
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780385520188
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  • 英文原版 
  • 纪实中国 
  • 社会 
  • 中国 
  • 打工 
  • 外文 
  • 外國人看中国 
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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.

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以几位东莞打工妹为切入,描绘农民工的日常生活与酸甜苦辣及一个飞速发展中的社会的光怪陆离,种种比喻相当精准幽默,笔下人物逆境中的坚韧不拔与足智多谋令人钦佩。作者家族史深邃迷人,但似与当代农民工联系不大。

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作者在东莞观察多年,并与两位来莞女民工进行了深入交流,后写成此书。书中所展现的女民工形象和我的刻板印象很不同,这些女民工学历不高,社会地位更不高,但她们却出乎意料地上进,追求知识,渴望提升(虽然这种行为的驱动力更多是对权力与金钱的欲求)。以前我从未想到女民工在外工作竟与其在家里的地位如此正相关,也未思考过在东莞这个世界工厂中民工们如何解决恋爱问题,当然更不会想到乡村风俗民工思维与文革历史之关系,而这些我未有之思考,作者已经帮我开启。最后想吐槽一下:我还是认为,作者的家族史与此书主题关联不大,突兀又累赘。PS:此书购于北京王府井书店,如果没有代金券,我不可能在实体书店买书,更不可能买下一本英文原版书,屌丝真真如我……(ㄒoㄒ)

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以几位东莞打工妹为切入,描绘农民工的日常生活与酸甜苦辣及一个飞速发展中的社会的光怪陆离,种种比喻相当精准幽默,笔下人物逆境中的坚韧不拔与足智多谋令人钦佩。作者家族史深邃迷人,但似与当代农民工联系不大。

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作者在东莞观察多年,并与两位来莞女民工进行了深入交流,后写成此书。书中所展现的女民工形象和我的刻板印象很不同,这些女民工学历不高,社会地位更不高,但她们却出乎意料地上进,追求知识,渴望提升(虽然这种行为的驱动力更多是对权力与金钱的欲求)。以前我从未想到女民工在外工作竟与其在家里的地位如此正相关,也未思考过在东莞这个世界工厂中民工们如何解决恋爱问题,当然更不会想到乡村风俗民工思维与文革历史之关系,而这些我未有之思考,作者已经帮我开启。最后想吐槽一下:我还是认为,作者的家族史与此书主题关联不大,突兀又累赘。PS:此书购于北京王府井书店,如果没有代金券,我不可能在实体书店买书,更不可能买下一本英文原版书,屌丝真真如我……(ㄒoㄒ)

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