Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China: Book by Leslie T. Chang (Book Review pages 171-431)
Factory Girls is a book of mountains and valleys…when the author dwells upon the lives of the girls she encounters the book is compelling…when she lingers on her family reunion it is of some interest and then when she plummets it her family history it drags…
The lives of the girls in the factories and then visiting their families at their villages are interesting and well told…but to often we are swept off the topic implied by the name of the book Factory Girls…
I found this very disappointing...then I wondered if it was just me…so I asked my wife to read the book with no comment from me…she did so…and felt EXACTELY the same as me! We both enjoyed following the lives of the girls and comparing the village life to that of the city but when it came to the author exploring her roots it felt like she had clip and pasted those parts of the book into the story…it could have been a hundred or so pages thinner…perhaps it should have been two books…
In the end we found the Factor Girls parts of the book to be Good and the other parts to be Bad…It is a book worth reading…just skip the family history and family reunion…
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