Just in case you missed the greatest mass migration in history and along with that the greatest liberation of women in Chinese history.
I reviewed Leslie’s book as part of cover story for an Italian magazine East.
A Story of Modern China
Review of The Factory Girls
By Lijia Zhang
Under Chairman Mao, the farmers were chained to their land. Deng Xiaopeng’s economic reforms have allowed them to leave their poor villages to come to the city to look for work and a better life. The result is the largest migration in human history. Now, there are about 250 millions migrant workers (the book, published in 2008, quotes 130 million) – or nongmingong, virtually, peasant workers. They have built the highways and taller and taller buildings; they’ve taken over the worst and dirtiest jobs in the city; they manufacture a large percent of goods consumed by people around the globe. Their hard and cheap labour has fuelled China’s economy. They are the unsung heroes of the so-called “economic miracles”.
Since I came from…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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