{"product_id":"factory-girls-from-village-to-city-in-a-changing-china-9780385520171","title":"Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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 workersthe 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 Chinas Pearl River Delta.  As she tracks their lives  Chang paints a never-before-seen picture of migrant lifea 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 familys 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 howthe mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society  much as immigration to Americas shores remade our own country a century ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648333504565,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385520174","price":22.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385520171.jpg?v=1781716142","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/factory-girls-from-village-to-city-in-a-changing-china-9780385520171","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}