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Coming Distraction: Factory Girls

As faithful readers may recall, China Beat contributor Leslie T. Chang has a forthcoming book, Factory Girls: From Village to City in Changing China, which will be released October 7. The book has received positive reviews, such as this one at Publisher... ...full story at China Beat

from China Beat on Thu, Oct 02 2008

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10 Oct 08 visit China Annals: Factory Girls  »  China Beat Last weekend China Beat contributors—and longtime Beijing neighbors—Susan Jakes and Leslie T. Chang caught up to talk about Chang’s newly released book, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China. The book, which builds on stories Chang...
01 Jun 08 visit Chinese Factory Girls  »  China Law Blog The always worthwhile China Beat has a great post up by Leslie T. Chang. Ms. Chang is a former WSJ reporter who just wrote a book called Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, due out in October. This post both previews the book and...
27 Aug 09 visit Book Review: Factory Girls  »  All Roads While down in HK a couple weeks back, I picked up Leslie Chang’s book Factory Girls.  It was one of the books that I had been waiting to find an opportunity to read, and it was worth the wait.  A book of interviews, observations, and person...
02 Oct 08 visit To die poor is a sin: Excerpt from Factory Girls  »  Danwei Former China Wall Street Journal correspondent Leslie T. Chang has written a book about migrant workers called Factory Girls. With a wonderfully light touch, Chang describes the social and economic factors behind the largest mass movement of people in...
16 Jun 08 visit Writing Factory Girls  »  China Beat By Leslie T. Chang I started writing my book on a March morning in 2006. About fifteen minutes into it, panic hit: I am no longer earning a salary just sitting here at my desk. By mid-morning, another realization had set in: I can’t go back to being...

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