Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers
Leslie T. Chang: 중국인 노동자들의 목소리
In her reporting and writing, Leslie T. Chang explores the lives of workers in China, focusing on the experience of women. Full bio
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저는 오늘 우리가 매일 사용하는 물건들을 만드는
그리고 핸드폰 같은 것들을 말이죠.
아마 우리들에게 도덕적인 경각심을 불러일으킬 것입니다.
여러분들이 지금 신고있는 운동화를 꽤매고
우리의 관심을 사로잡기에 충분합니다.
이미 죄책감을 느끼고 있는 이 시점엔
자기착각에 빠진것 같습니다.
수천만명이나 되는 사람들을
고통을 줄 수 있다는 것에 대해서 말이죠.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Leslie T. Chang - JournalistIn her reporting and writing, Leslie T. Chang explores the lives of workers in China, focusing on the experience of women.
Why you should listen
Leslie T. Chang's book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China traces the lives of Chunming and Min, two young women working in Dongguan, a factory city in South China. Leaving their home villages far behind in pursuit of work, Chunming and Min are part of an estimated 10 million young migrants (estimated to be 70 percent women) who work in China's booming factories. These migrants live in a "perpetual present," forging individual and nontraditional lives amid the breakneck pace of manufacturing.
As Chang gets to know these two women and others, she reveals the harsh realities of China's spectacular industrial growth, and also explores her family's own history of migration from mainland China.
Chang lived in China for a decade as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. She is now based in Egypt.
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