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Sto caricando le informazioni... Operaie (2008)di Leslie T. Chang
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a really intimate portrait of the young women working in Chinese factories. I was mesmerized by their stories and what they have to do to get ahead. ( ) 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. This was an interesting look into how China has modernized since the Cultural Revolution. I enjoyed learning about the different young women featured here, even when it was difficult to follow who was who while listening to the audio (as a non-native speaker). I also appreciated Chang's research into her own family history, though I felt it was almost an entirely separate story and could have been made into its own book. To be fair, Chang did tie it in to the plight of the eponymous "factory girls" not long after going off on that tangent, but as such, I found it hard to maintain interest at times, wondering where exactly the exposé was going.
A fascinating ethnography of the young women who labor in the factories of Guangdong, China's richest province, a land of boomtowns where wealth and scams and exploitation and warmth and courage all abound. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiDwarsliggers (32) Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
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 pho≠ and 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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