In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Bio: Leslie T. Chang is a Chinese-American journalist and the author of Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China. A former China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, she has been described as "an insightful interpreter of a society in flux."