Pearl's Daughters commemorates the first generation of women who worked in factories in Pearl River Delta, the southern part of China that first opened to the free market in the 1980s-1990s.
This project uses the true narratives of a large number of female labourers to recreate their work and life in the factories, echoing the lives in a period of changing and reforming: women left the traditional agricultural lifestyle and became particles of the collective economy. These stories are re-edited into one in the form of a literary collage. They gather the key moments of the women’s everyday living, portraying the endeavours and perseverance of their youth to tell a personal narrative of the unnamed in memory of the blooming life of the last generation, our mothers.
