03079cam a22003254a 4500 2818 FISKH 20240116104751.0 090727s2009 nyub b 000 0 eng 2009288594 9780385520188 (pbk.) DLC DLC DLC eng a-cc--- HD9734.C55 C53 2009 331.40951 22 Chang, Leslie T. Factory girls : from village to city in a changing China / Leslie T. Chang. [New ed.] New York : Spiegel & Grau, 2009. 431 pages : map. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-416). Going out -- The city -- To die poor is a sin -- The talent market -- Factory girls -- The stele with no name -- Square and round -- Eight-minute date -- Assembly-line English -- The village -- The historian in my family -- The South China mall -- Love and money -- The tomb of the emperor -- Perfect health. 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 pho≠ and 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. Manufacturing industries China Employees. Women migrant labor China. Young women Employment China. 7 cbc orignew 3 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 2818 2818 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 001 001 TKSNF 2024-01-16 1 CHA 331.40951 HD9734.C55 2024-0034 2026-04-28 08:00:37 2024-03-01 2024-01-16 BK