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Foreign Babes in Beijing. Behind the Scenes of a New China.
by DEWOSKIN, RACHEL
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0393059022
- ISBN 13
- 9780393059021
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About This Item
UK.: Norton.. 2005.. 332pp, notes, dustjacket, a very good hardback copy. Hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons, the author went to work in China, eventually becoming the star of a wildly successful soap opera. Living the culture clashes in real life while playing out a parallel version onscreen, she witnesses the country's vast changes. A sort of Chinese counterpart to "Sex in the City" revolving around Chinese-Western culture clashes, the show was called "Foreign Babes in Beijing." Living the clashes in real life while playing out a parallel version onscreen, Rachel forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim that "to get rich is glorious." In only a few years, billboards, stylish bars and discos, international restaurants, fashion shows, divorce, foreign visitors, and cross-cultural love affairs transform the face of China's capital. Foreign Babes in Beijing is as astute and informative as it is witty, moving, and entertaining. .
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- Bookseller
- Asia Bookroom
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 173913
- Title
- Foreign Babes in Beijing. Behind the Scenes of a New China.
- Author
- DEWOSKIN, RACHEL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393059022
- ISBN 13
- 9780393059021
- Publisher
- Norton.
- Place of Publication
- UK.
- Date Published
- 2005.
- Keywords
- Beijing, China, Gender Studies, Modern China, Social Change, Travel Writing, zz_Gallery_Out_of_Print_and_Secondhand_Books
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