Factory Work and a Fleeting Romance

工厂打工，露水情缘

by Old Liang's Essays and Musings (老梁随笔杂谈)

Status: Completed
Length: 308k Words
Genre: Urban
Subgenre: Urban Everyday
Updated: 4mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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As foreign investment poured in with the reform and opening-up, factories sprang up across coastal cities, and young men and women from inland China flocked to the cities for work. Their monotonous, disheartening working lives and restless hearts gave rise to one fleeting romance after another.

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