Harvard University, which celebrated its 375th anniversary in 2011, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
2012年,面对数千名来自全世界各地的新一期学子,校长德鲁·福斯特向全校师生推荐了一部关于中国的新闻类作品,作品的作者是一位美国华裔新闻记者Leslie T. Chang。
Leslie T. Chang lived in China for a decade as a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, specializing in stories that explored how socioeconomic change is transforming institutions and individuals. She has also written for National Geographic and Condé Nast Traveler. Factory Girls is her first book.
A graduate of Harvard University with a degree in American History and Literature, Chang has also worked as a journalist in the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. She was raised outside New York City by immigrant parents who forced her to attend Saturday-morning Chinese school, for which she is now grateful.
She and her husband, writer Peter Hessler, live in Cairo with their two daughters.
该部作品目前已被翻译为多国文字,是“真正的了解真实中国经济和社会的变化”的优秀作品。