Discuss the two main characters (Min and Chunming) in Leslie Chang’s Factory Girls in relation to the themes of “necessity” and “extravagance.” How would you compare and contrast these two characters? To what extent are economic exigencies in their lives complicated by bold imagination or even great ambition? To what extent does the agency/will/volition of the workers complicate simple, more straightforward narratives of victimization? How might we think of the concept of chiku (eating bitterness) in relation to the themes of “necessity” vs. “extravagance”? You need not answer all of these questions, but you should answer some of them
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