A review by chyneyee
Factory Girls: Voices from the Heart of Modern China by Leslie T. Chang

challenging funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

I feel heartless admitting that I'm more interested in the stories about migrant workers than the writer's family history. It started well, but as it went on, it got complicated because it involved several people with different backgrounds and continuous job switching. Their stories were told simultaneously, which sometimes made me lose what I was reading. Despite being lost towards the end, this is an in-depth research piece. I'm sorry that I wasn't interested in the writer's family history, and it's strange that she included her personal story in the book. I guess she wants to show the differences in migrations between the war period and modern generations.