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

2.0

i read this book for a bookclub and would not have otherwise chosen to read this text. (consequences of missing the meeting where they voted on the next book to read.)

factory girls starts by centering the stories of rural chinese teens and young women who leave their families' farms for cities, especially dongguan, searching out factory work. it also ventures deeply into the author's own family history and an overview of chinese communist takeover. that's as far as i made it -- 42% of the way through the audiobook.

im learning again and again that i truly abhorre the writing styles of mainstream news reporters. and factory girls was no the exception despite my best efforts. i tried!

i dont yet know enough of chinese history to understand the depth of what was summarized and compiled in this text. nor do i know enough to assess what was left out in this telling or why. however, i could tell that this story was certainly biased against the chinese communist regime, it's violences, and the ways it impacted the author and author's family members as well as many many others of the chinese people.

there's much for me to learn and explore, aaand this isnt the author or the text to do that for me.