Made In China By Pun Ngai Summary

The book I read is Made In China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace by Pun Ngai. The book centers around the class of working girls called the dagongmei who travel from chinese countryside to cities in order to pursue work so that they can send money home to their families in the countryside. In the book, Ngai examines these workers in an electronics factory in southern China, and what causes them to live this life. During her 8 month ethnographic research she lived and worked alongside these girls.Pun Ngai comes from an educational background in sociology.She was working in Hong Kong when she published this book, but she got her undergraduate degree from europe, London to be more specific. When she comes into the situation she does so as an outsider, meaning not as someone who lived this experience when they were younger.

She brings a lot of different knowledge of things are different around the world, and maybe a view of how she believes thing should be. Her book is about how the emerging Dagongmei class was formed from the shifting of economic practices from socialism to capitalism, and how the shift affects sexual relations and social change. The scream of the dagongmei is at the state, capital, and patriarchy, as well as against globalism. The transformation of China into the world's factory will be met with resistance and a redefinition of women’s role in Chinese society. Pun Ngai set out to write a book about her experience among the repressed group of women working in factories and talk about how the changing economic landscape in China has affected their role in