Leslie T. Chang

Leslie T. Chang is the author of Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China. Her new book, about the working women of Egypt, will be published next year. (October 2022)

Little Town on the Prairie

Liang Hong’s best-selling account of returning to her home village inspired an outpouring of Chinese nonfiction about the country’s immense social changes.

China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World

by Liang Hong, translated from the Chinese by Emily Goedde

October 6, 2022 issue

Egypt: Sisi's Cheerleaders

Four years after the Egyptian people rose up against the authoritarian regime of Hosni Mubarak, the media in the Arab world’s largest country shows greater support for strong-arm government than it did under Mubarak’s rule.

September 15, 2015

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