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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing ChinaBy Leslie T. Chang

In a Nutshell

Journalist Leslie T. Chang explores the lives of migrant women working in modern China's factories, highlighting their ambition, resilience, and grit in a rapidly evolving environment.

Favorite Quote

Suffering in silence is not how migrant workers see themselves. To come out from home and work in a factory is the hardest thing they have ever done. It is also an adventure … To return home early is to admit defeat. To go out and stay out – chuqu – is to change your fate.

Leslie T. Chang

Introduction

Contemporary China is known as the world's factory, manufacturing masses of products and employing millions of migrant workers every year.

Nicknamed the 'floating population' in Chinese, these migrant workers have been featured in many media exposés on factory conditions, but their voices are often erased from official narratives.

Leslie T. Chang, a former China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, tells a different story about migrant labor.

Chang draws on her extensive field research in the early 2000s to explore the personal lives of migrant women working in Dongguan, one of China's biggest factory cities.

In Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, Chang highlights the resilience and ambition needed to make it as a migrant worker in contemporary China.

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