Factory Girls – From Village to City in A Changing China

Former Wall Street Journal Beijing Correspondent and first-generation Chinese American Leslie T. Chang penned “Factory Girls: From Village to City in A Changing China”, a story of factory workers who labor countless hours to provide us with the material goods we take for granted. It took Ms. Chang two years to nail down the story she was after. Hoping to get an insider’s look at the lives of China’s more than 100 million migrant workers, Chang followed two young women – “ Chunming and Min, both assembly-line workers – “ from one factory to another as they changed jobs numerous times. Then she returned with them to their home villages to better understand the radical break they had made with Chinese family traditions. She writes about the way the workers themselves see migration, bringing us views that are rarely heard. If you are in the Boston area she will be at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street in Cambridge at 7pm on October 20th.