Factory Girls

My friend Maggie suggested reading Leslie Chang and Peter Hessler while I'm visiting China- so I started with Factory Girls. I love literary non fiction- and what Chang does in this book is to only shed light on migrant women workers here in china, but she also reveals her own journey into the history of her family here too. Some have given critiques of this- but I think it works quite well in her book!

It definitely shines a light on the factories and the hardship of life, but her book works to do something else, to give these women voices and to hear their stories about migration. It is really quite interesting and of course thought provoking.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/factory-girls-by-leslie-t-chang-1643534.html




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