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Shanghai Baby is a novel written by Chinese author Wei Hui. It was originally published in China in 1999. The English translation was published in 2001. Plot. Twenty-five-year-old Nikki - whose friends call her Coco after Coco Chanel – is a young Shanghainese writer, fascinated by the West and Western culture.
Aug 1, 2002 · Wei Hui's provocative portrayal of men, women, and cultural transition is an astonishing and brave exposure of the unacknowledged new China, breaking through official rhetoric to show the inroads of the West and a people determined to burst free.
Apr 15, 2016 · Entitled “Bloody Saturday” or just “Shanghai Baby,” the photo instantly became a lighting rod for anti-Japanese sentiment in the U.S. Its publication would later stand out as one many waypoints on the road to war between Japan and the United States.
The gap that divides those of us born in the 1970s and the older generation has never been so wide. Dark and edgy, deliciously naughty, an intoxicating cocktail of sex and the search for...
Searing a blistering image into the reader's imagination, Shanghai Baby provides an alternative travelogue into the back streets of a city and the hard-core escapades of today's liberated youth. Wei Hui's provocative portrayal of men, women, and cultural transition is an astonishing and brave exposure of the unacknowledged new China, breaking ...
Sep 16, 2001 · September 16, 2001. A best-seller in China in 1999, before the government banned it and shut down its publisher, this autobiographical novel chronicles the reckless life of a young woman,...
Aug 8, 2002 · Searing a blistering image into the reader's imagination, Shanghai Baby provides an alternative travelogue into the back streets of a city and the hard-core escapades of today's liberated youth. Wei Hui's provocative portrayal of men, women, and cultural transition is an astonishing and brave exposure of the unacknowledged new China, breaking ...
- Wei Hui
Shanghai Baby. Wei Hui Zhou. Little, Brown Book Group, Mar 1, 2012 - Fiction - 320 pages. Publicly burned in China for its sensual nature and irreverent style, this novel is the semi-autobiographical story of Coco, a café 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 ...
Jan 1, 2002 · Escellent.―Heat. Wei Hui is intelligent and a passionte spokesperson for modern China.―Marie Claire. Shanghai Baby is beautifully written, and the author cleary combines the qualities of natural feeling for writing with intelligence.―Jianying Zha, author of China Pop.
- Zhou Wei Hui
May 18, 2007 · Coco leads an intense life in the lively subculture of the boomtown Shanghai. It revolves around endless nights spent in the Shanghai club and art scene, sex, literature and the writing of her first novel. Her life takes an unexpectedly complicated turn when she suddenly feels attracted to two very opposite men.
