Factory Girls Audio Book MP3-CD Unabridged

Factory Girls:
From Village to City in a Changing China
Author: Leslie T. Chang
Reader: Susan Ericksen

A close-up look at China's 130 million migrant factory workers, the largest migration in human history. A former correspondent for The Wall Street Journal demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking lives and transforming Chinese society. "Entertaining and poignant... fine prose [and] keen sense of detail... an intimate portrait of a strange and hidden landscape."—The New Yorker » Read More

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Publish Date: 01/12/2009
ISBN: 9781400160457

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In FACTORY GIRLS: FROM VILLAGE TO CITY IN A CHANGING CHINA, Leslie Chang, a former Wall Street Journal reporter assigned to Beijing, shows us the human underside of the Chinese economic transformation. She follows the lives of two young migrant factory workers as they navigate a world where upward mobility is close to a contact sport. Part of the mass migration--the largest in human history--from peasant farming villages to Pearl River factories, these women struggle to move up from the assembly line to a better life. Chang also places their experiences in the context of her own family's long-ago migration to the United States. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.

Book Reviews:

"Chang's extraordinary reportorial feat is the intimacy with which she presents the stories of these two women. Min and Chunming lack the reserve of some of their colleagues. They share their diary entries and their text messages, their romantic entanglements and their sometimes strained relationships with the families they left behind. The result is an exceptionally vivid and compassionate depiction of the day-to-day dramas, and the fears and aspirations, of the real people who are powering China's economic boom."

New York Times Book Review - PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE (11/09/2008)

"FACTORY GIRLS is an admirable study which shows that, with determination, audacity and ability, some Chinese migrant women can and do succeed in transforming their lives."

Times Literary Supplement - Delia Davin (10/02/2009)

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