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Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

Leslie T. Chang

China / Narrative Nonfiction

Chang follows young migrant women from rural Sichuan into the factory towns of Dongguan, tracing their ambitions, self-reinvention, and the grinding economics of export manufacturing up close. Wang sees it as the ground-level complement to the macro narratives he writes about Chinese industry.

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  • Dan Wang

    Wang values it as the on-the-ground account of Chinese export manufacturing that complements his macro-level industrial policy writing.

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