8x10 Misty Mundae "Factory Girl"

THERE IS confusion here in this mountain place, all because of a girl I lost over twenty years ago. She was buried in memory for so long I thought she would never reappear, but she has, and I must try to put her into focus. Especially now, now that I?m happy and married to the dream I had all my life. The lost girl came back to me in the form of a phone call, then took on further flesh in a letter, and I saw her once, a few months ago, so that she became suddenly real again, suddenly confusing. It...

In FACTORY GIRLS: FROM VILLAGE TO CITY IN A CHANGING CHINA, Leslie Chang, a former Wall Street Journal reporter assigned to Beijing, shows us the human underside of the Chinese economic transformation. She follows the lives of two young migrant factory workers as they navigate a world where upward mobility is close to a contact sport. Part of the mass migration--the largest in human history--from peasant farming villages to Pearl River factories, these women struggle to move up from the assembly...

She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-sixties. Like many exotic creatures that Andy Warhol shed his light on, she initially bloomed--became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish--and just as quickly began to disintegrate. Told with unsparing candor and with candid images that capture her at the peak of her Factory stardom, Edie Factory Girl is the short but enduring cultural story of Edie Sedgwick--releasing...