Leslie T. Chang Quotes

Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing th...

Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing th...

Leslie T. Chang

Tags: capitalism, china, chinese, chuqu, city, factory, girls, globalization, labor, life

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

Leslie T. Chang

The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.

Leslie T. Chang

Tags: destiny, inspirational, past and future

About Author

Leslie T. 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). A former China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, she has been described as "an insightful interpreter of a society in flux."