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.

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.