A review by susanbrooks
Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang

3.0

I was pleasantly surprised by this book, as I thought it would be about the brutality of life in Chinese factories. It's a more complex story about girls who leave villages to work at factories in the city, which brings freedom, money, risk, disappointment, change and brings them a whole new way of life and a different relationship with their families. With its many characters and a quality of being a list (ie -Chungmin did this and that and then this...) it was a bit exhausting.