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Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
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Author
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Rachel DeWoskin.
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Publisher
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Granta
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Format
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paperback
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ISBN
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9781862079175
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Pages/Publication Date
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332/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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92472
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List Price: Import
Sale Price:
$3.98
$1.98
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Description
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"[Rachel] DeWoskin's memoir takes its title from a popular Chinese soap opera in which she starred in the mid-nineties ... cast as Jiexi, a sexually liberated American girl who embodies China's simultaneous excitement at and nervousness about the spread of Western influence (she seduces a married Chinese man). DeWoskin's cleverly layered account thus charts parallel culture clashes, one that she experiences as a Western woman in modern China, and the other, a TV-ready version of the first, tailored to Chinese expectations. The daughter of a Sinologist, DeWoskin has considerable cultural and linguistic resources."—The New Yorker
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