About the author
Leslie T. Chang is a Chinese-American journalist and author. Her reporting follows migration, work, education, and self-invention through long observation of individual lives rather than a quick tour of factories or statistics.
Leslie T. Chang spent years in Dongguan following young women who had left rural villages for the assembly lines of southern China. The book centers on Min and Chunming, whose jobs, addresses, friendships, and ambitions change too quickly for any official statistic to hold them still.
Where to start
Start with Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China. Two young migrant women navigate factory work, friendship, money, and reinvention in the boomtown of Dongguan.
