Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China

Chang, a former Beijing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal , explores the urban realities and rural roots of a community, until now, as unacknowledged as it is massive-China's 130 million workers whose exodus from villages to factory and city life is the largest migration in history. Chang spent three years following the successes, hardships and heartbreaks of two teenage girls, Min and Chunming, migrants working the assembly lines in Dongguan, one of the new factory cities that have sprung up all over China.