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| Title | : | Shanghai Baby |
| Author | : | Zhou Weihui |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 311 pages |
| Published | : | 2002 by Robinson (first published 1999) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. China. Fiction. Romance. Asia. Contemporary. Literature. Asian Literature |
Zhou Weihui
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 311 pages Rating: 3.21 | 4264 Users | 351 Reviews
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A story of love, sex and self-discovery - banned in China. Publicly burned in China for its sensual nature and irreverent style, this novel is the semi-autobiographical story of Coco, a cafe waitress, who is full of enthusiasm and impatience for life. She meets a young man, Tian Tian, for whom she feels tenderness and love, but he is reclusive, impotent and an increasing user of drugs. Despite parental objections, Coco moves in with him, leaves her job and throws herself into her writing. Shortly afterwards, she meets Mark, a married Westerner. The two are uncontrollably attracted and begin a highly charged, physical affair. Torn between her two lovers, and tormented by her deceit, her unfinished novel and the conflicting feelings involved in love and betrayal, Coco begins to find out who she really is. Here is a beautifully written novel with a distinct voice that describes China on the brink of its own social and sexual revolution. 'I was looking for a voice of my generation. The gap that divides those of us born in the 1970s and the older generation has never seemed so wide.' - Wei Hui, Reuters
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| Original Title: | 上海宝贝 [Shanghai baobei] |
| ISBN: | 1841196843 (ISBN13: 9781841196848) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Mark Fuller, Cocó, Tian Tian |
| Setting: | Shanghai(China) China |
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Ratings: 3.21 From 4264 Users | 351 ReviewsWrite Up Out Of Books Shanghai Baby
Totally not what I was expecting! In a good way.
Wei Hui is Shanghai-ese spoiled spoiled spoiled who can think of nothing better to do, so she decides to become a writer, and because she's a writer, she must be tortured! Oh! It's so hard being her! It's so hard living the life of luxury and not having to care! Don't you feel sorry for her? Because she wants you to.Also, Wei Hui most pretentious. And her writing, ugh. "A team of Japanese boys on roller skates looked like mounted butterflies as they showed off their techniques... their dyed hair
I bought this book because it seemed to have the potencial of being an interesting story; but at the end it only showed to be a very pretentious novel written by a pseudo-feminist and pseudo-intellectual narcissist woman.
If this had been published here in 2011, not 2001, it would have been called a hipster novel. It's more conventionally written than Taipei or How Should A Person Be? (plus the descriptions often teeter on a subjective line between 'intense melancholy beauty' and 'a bit emo'), but most of the characters are, as in Alt-Lit, well-off urban middle class arty twentysomethings who barely have a thought for anyone and anything outside their own social set. There are even vists to a therapist. Shanghai
I grabbed this book off of a free book exchange shelf thinking it was Shanghai Girls but decided to read it anyway. Big mistake! Granted this book was written in 1999 and was almost banned by the Chinese government because of it's sensuality, it was not worth being printed. This was a very shallow twenty-something version of Sex in the City without the best friends. The only parts that were interesting were brief commentaries on western expats. I found the narrator obsessed with all things
I think 2 stars is kind, I would have given 1.5. The main character Coco is extremely unlikable - egotistical, vapid, obsessed with her looks, and immature. she longs for fame based on her "skill" as an author, and seems to be mostly motivated by that. not to become a good author for the sake of self development or because she has something she feels needs to be written, but just for fame. and it doesnt get much more shallow than that. Her man-baby boyfriend is also irritating due to his
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