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Title:Shanghai Baby
Author:Zhou Weihui
Book Format:Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 311 pages
Published:2002 by Robinson (first published 1999)
Categories:Cultural. China. Fiction. Romance. Asia. Contemporary. Literature. Asian Literature
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Shanghai Baby 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 Reviews

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Loved it. Slutty and unapologetic the way I like it.

A lot of my Chinese friends encourage me to read this book, not because they think it's cool or that it's fantastic, but because the main character is a Shanghainese girl.Well, duh, you can read the title, right?It turned out, my Chinese friends - who are not from Shanghai - begged me to read this book to prove their points that Shanghai girls are *cough* a bit unruly on the sex and wild side. They have this prejudice that Shanghai girls are only after white guys and that they would do anything

A lot of my Chinese friends encourage me to read this book, not because they think it's cool or that it's fantastic, but because the main character is a Shanghainese girl.Well, duh, you can read the title, right?It turned out, my Chinese friends - who are not from Shanghai - begged me to read this book to prove their points that Shanghai girls are *cough* a bit unruly on the sex and wild side. They have this prejudice that Shanghai girls are only after white guys and that they would do anything

Reading a book with the protagonist being a writer is always fascinating. Reading the book was entertaining and some parts were very well written but the ending seemed lazy or like unsatisfying.

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

I should start by saying I am not the target audience for this, and also by recording my surprise that this was a banned book in China. Why was is banned? For its self-indulgence?Although already announced in the blurb on the back as semi-autobiographical, it is a pretty thin veil being cast over the author, who clearly is for a large part the main character.Pretty author, nicknamed Coco (after Coco Chanel) who everybody fawns over, quits her job as a waitress to live with artist boyfriend and