LeslieT Chang's major works

Working Girls-Changing China from Rural to Urban (also known as Factory Girls: Changing Rural to Urban in China) is LeslieT Chang's first book.

In 2004, the author went deep into the southern city of Dongguan, China, and recorded the lives of two young factory production line women, Chun Ming and Lu Qingmin, from poor farmers for more than two years. The book "Migrant Girl" is a description of migrant workers and their monotonous, hard and isolated lives, and it also integrates Zhang's own family's immigration history. Describe the bitter blood and tears of factory women workers from rural areas to cities and working and living in Dongguan with delicate brushstrokes.

Working Girl was nominated as an excellent reading by The New York Times, and was also rated as one of the excellent reading materials in 2008 by Washington post Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, Time and Businessweek. This work has won the American Pen Non-fiction Literature Award, the Asian American Literature Prose Award and the Terzani International Literature Award. According to LeslieT Chang's personal website, this book will be translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Thai. April 20 13, the Chinese version of the book was published.