Leslie T. Chang
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About the Author
Image credit: Promo photo from Random House
Tekijän teokset
Associated Works
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Avustaja — 29 kappaletta
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- New York, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- Ridgway, Colorado, USA
China
Cairo, Egypt - Koulutus
- Harvard University
- Ammatit
- journalist
- Suhteet
- Hessler, Peter (husband)
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing… Tekijä: Leslie T. Chang
Interweaving her own fascinating family history and taking the Studs Terkel approach via interviews with the woman on the street, Chang tells the uplifting stories of migrant women: teens who grow into women and build the edifices of their futures upon the staid yet also constricting traditions of the villages they come from and the freeing yet also dangerous challenges of the cities they migrate to.
I really enjoyed this book. The stories of the young migrant women were fascinating. Strangely, you don't get much exposure in popualr media to their lives despite the hubbub of the last few decades of China's economic rise. The book goes to some brief lulls during Chang's interludes of her own family history but I gradually grew to appreciate it. The book was published around the mid 2000s and gave the impression of a rapidly changing China indeed. Off to Peter Hessler next!
Having read and loved all the Hessler books on China, I thought I would give this one (by his wife) a try. It is an excellent portrait of the factory cities of eastern China and the migrant villagers who work there. Interspersed is the story of Chang's own ancestors who left China decades ago. Some of the other reviews mentioned that the village girl stories jumped around too much to follow and the narrative is a bit fragmented in that regard, but never enough to interfere with the compelling story. Insightful.… (lisätietoja)
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