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Leslie T. Chang

Journalist

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Leslie T. Chang is a journalist, best known for Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China.

Quick Facts About Leslie T. Chang

Profession: Journalist
Notable works: Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Spouse: Peter Hessler

About Leslie T. Chang

Leslie T. Chang 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."

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Asian American Literary Awards

Quotes by Leslie T. Chang

Chinese workers are not forced into factories because of our insatiable desire for iPods. They choose to leave their homes in order…

Leslie T. Chang

Chinese

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“If I only go to school, come out and do migrant work for a few years, then go home, marry and have…

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Children

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

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Against all odds

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“Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first…

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Capitalism

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A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform,…

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Growing up

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“The binders hinted at the reasons past relationships had gone sour. SEEKING A 28- TO 34-YEAR-OLD WITH AN OPEN PERSONALITY WHO DOESN'T…

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Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece…

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Doe

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