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Leslie T. Chang 出版社: Spiegel & Grau 副标题: From Village to City in a Changing China 出版年: 2008-10-7 页数: 432 定价: USD 26.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780385520171
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.
China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives...
An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China.
China has 130 million migrant workers—the largest migration in human history. In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China’s Pearl River Delta.
As she tracks their lives, Chang paints a never-before-seen picture of migrant life—a world where nearly everyone is under thirty; where you can lose your boyfriend and your friends with the loss of a mobile phone; where a few computer or English lessons can catapult you into a completely different social class. Chang takes us inside a sneaker factory so large that it has its own hospital, movie theater, and fire department; to posh karaoke bars that are fronts for prostitution; to makeshift English classes where students shave their heads in monklike devotion and sit day after day in front of machines watching English words flash by; and back to a farming village for the Chinese New Year, revealing the poverty and idleness of rural life that drive young girls to leave home in the first place. Throughout this riveting portrait, Chang also interweaves the story of her own family’s migrations, within China and to the West, providing historical and personal frames of reference for her investigation.
A book of global significance that provides new insight into China,Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America’s shores remade our own country a century ago.
Leslie T. Chang lived in China for a decade as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. She is married to Peter Hessler, who also writes about China. She lives in Colorado.
目录
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Pt. 1 The City
1 Going Out 3
2 The City 17
3 To Die Poor Is a Sin 44
4 The Talent Market 72
5 Factory Girls 98
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Pt. 1 The City
1 Going Out 3
2 The City 17
3 To Die Poor Is a Sin 44
4 The Talent Market 72
5 Factory Girls 98
6 The Stele with No Name 120
7 Square and Round 171
8 Eight-Minute Date 206
9 Assembly-Line English 246
Pt. 2 The Village
10 The Village 269
11 The Historian in My Family 303
12 The South China Mall 334
13 Love and Money 360
14 The Tomb of the Emperor 377
15 Perfect Health 388
Sources 409
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Same generation as Min and Chunming，although the growing path is totally different, still, feeling is similar. There is no different from countryside or city, poor or rich. It is made by the timing, b...Same generation as Min and Chunming，although the growing path is totally different, still, feeling is similar. There is no different from countryside or city, poor or rich. It is made by the timing, by age.(展开)
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3 有用 雪地里的水煮蛋 2011-10-25 11:21:00
跟country driving的peter hessler相比，这位作者似乎更缺乏同情心，对中国的现状更加厌恶？两人都试图把中国的情况做某种比方让西方（美国）读者更理解，不过两人选择的比喻undertone却是很不同。关于作者家庭的故事跟factory girls毫无关系，穿插的非常勉强。人物的故事不知道为什么不是从头讲到尾而是挑来跳去的。
0 有用 capote 2010-09-26 04:51:29
出乎预期的好，至少，这是一本诚实的书。
0 有用 Yan 2015-05-22 02:24:02
角度切入是好的，也很有话题性。只不过一切都不痛不痒。
1 有用 此一是非 2013-04-12 01:14:44
尽管作者一直试图避免先入为主的评价与论断，但那些颇引人警醒的段落里，常常蕴藏着一种简单直白的对比：个人主义的自我奋斗与集体主义的隐忍缄默。个人赞同作者将集体的沉默与遗忘视为中国历史无根摇摆的症结所在。个体生命的多姿在于其有血有肉的情感与丰富立体的性格，压抑个体之不同的文化是东莞工厂或奥威尔寓言式的吞噬。然而，如果说具有集体特性的文化本身就具有腐坏的性质我亦难苟同。无论是出于文化的根深蒂固还是思维惯... 尽管作者一直试图避免先入为主的评价与论断，但那些颇引人警醒的段落里，常常蕴藏着一种简单直白的对比：个人主义的自我奋斗与集体主义的隐忍缄默。个人赞同作者将集体的沉默与遗忘视为中国历史无根摇摆的症结所在。个体生命的多姿在于其有血有肉的情感与丰富立体的性格，压抑个体之不同的文化是东莞工厂或奥威尔寓言式的吞噬。然而，如果说具有集体特性的文化本身就具有腐坏的性质我亦难苟同。无论是出于文化的根深蒂固还是思维惯性，我都不免从心底某个至深的角落惊诧——希望个体的生命能够为社会或集体有所贡献真的如此不可思议而值得同情吗？另一方面，读了英文版便不难理解大陆为何会以“和全书主要内容没太大关系”为由删节有关作者家族历史的章节，“恰到好处”的讽刺总是让试图在其间寻找光明的人哑口无言。 (展开)
0 有用 灰 2013-04-22 10:19:14
作者的祖父间接因朱令案最大犯罪嫌疑人孙维的爷爷孙越崎而死。孙家真是……呵呵呵呵
0 有用 FGS 2024-04-21 16:07:35 英国
满洲国的家族历史和2000年代初始东莞打工女孩儿的交错叙事
0 有用 庄常飞 2024-04-02 01:09:38 美国
3.5星，东莞一本老家一本，还算流畅但没什么深度且自我意识太强 PS 何伟居然到了后期需要借鉴自己妻子十年前写过的故事了
0 有用 螺丝 2024-03-18 11:17:24 澳大利亚
有点流水账，但词汇量很适合我😁
0 有用 Qing 2024-03-15 20:06:47 上海
Same generation as Min and Chunming，although the growing path is totally different, still, feeling is similar. There is no different from countryside or city, poor or rich. It is made by the timing, b... Same generation as Min and Chunming，although the growing path is totally different, still, feeling is similar. There is no different from countryside or city, poor or rich. It is made by the timing, by age. (展开)
0 有用 霖达 2024-02-03 04:45:51 新加坡
啊啊啊其实1.17看完了但是没有足够的attention span写总结 厂妹这个标签听起来感觉很负面 但是还是很积极向上的人啊（？这么正能量tf） audiobook narrator的拼音发音尝试真的是一言难尽......