Post-1980 China has been variously described as an era of possibilities and an age of strife. Describe the world of post-1980 China as seen in Factory Girls. How does Chang characterize post-1980 China? Like Bound Feet and The Gender of Memory, women are at the center of this story. How does the tale of women in Factory Girls compare with the stories of Yu-i Chang and women in Gail Hershatter’s interviews. How does Leslie Chang’s China compare with what we see in the reading covering the post-1980 period? Keep in mind that I am not asking you to write your own history of post-1980 ChinaI want you to describe the vision of the era that we get from one contemporary (Leslie Chang) and to compare that vision with images that we obtain from other materials.

Please write a 6-8 page analysis of Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: from Village to City in a Changing China, with the following questions in mind:

Post-1980 China has been variously described as an era of possibilities and an age of strife. Describe the world of post-1980 China as seen in Factory Girls. How does Chang characterize post-1980 China? Like Bound Feet and The Gender of Memory, women are at the center of this story. How does the tale of women in Factory Girls compare with the stories of Yu-i Chang and women in Gail Hershatter’s interviews. How does Leslie Chang’s China compare with what we see in the reading covering the post-1980 period? Keep in mind that I am not asking you to write your own history of post-1980 ChinaI want you to describe the vision of the era that we get from one contemporary (Leslie Chang) and to compare that vision with images that we obtain from other materials.

Please submit a typed, double-spaced essay (as doc or docx files). The paper should include an introduction, body and conclusion. It should make a clear argument (do not, in other words, write as if simply responding to questions), and should include liberal specific references to the texts (brief quotations or references to specific facts or episodesplease DO NOT INCLUDE EXTENDED DIRECT QUOTATIONS). You should focus upon Factory Girls but also include comparative references to some of our other materials. You need not include footnotes or a bibliography, but please briefly identify the relevant source in parentheses in the body of your essay, along the following lines (Leslie Chang, p. 200). PLEASE NUMBER YOUR PAGES.

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