![]() ![]() The book follows their lives over three years and also includes the author's own family history of migration within China and to the West. In 2004 she traveled to the South Central China factory city of Dongguan to document the lives of Wu Chunming and Lu Qingmin, two migrant workers who were born to poor farming families. In response to the negative press surrounding working conditions in Chinese factories, Chang decided to explore the subject from the perspective of the workers. In 2004, as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Chang visited Dongguan, Guangdong province, China. In 1991, Chang earned a degree in American history and literature from Harvard University. Chang was raised outside of New York City, New York. Chang, a physicist, researcher, professor, and Dean of Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. A former China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, she has been described as "an insightful interpreter of a society in flux." Early life Ĭhang was born in New York, United States. Chang ( Chinese: 張彤禾 pinyin: Zhāng Tónghé) is a Chinese-American journalist and the author of Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China (2008). ![]()
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