The Factory Girls in China – General

www.chinahush.com — This is a recent forum post on Netease by a young man working in a “typical” electronic assembly factory in Guangdong province where over 90 percent of the factory workers were girls. A rather innocent and insightful observation I thought, really gave us some insights on the lives of these young factory worker girls. At the same time it was quite in tune with the book by Leslie T. Chang.

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