Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-416).
Contents
Going out -- The city -- To die poor is a sin -- The talent market -- Factory girls -- The stele with no name -- Square and round -- Eight-minute date -- Assembly-line English -- The village -- The historian in my family -- The South China mall -- Love and money -- The tomb of the emperor -- Perfect health.
Summary
An eye-opening and previously untold story, "Factory Girls" is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. The author demonstrates how "the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America's shores remade our own country a century ago."
