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.
