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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

Shanghai Baby

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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Title	:	Shanghai Baby
Author	:	Zhou Weihui
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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Ratings: 3.21 From 4264 Users | 351 Reviews

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why is this book so hated? 3.21 according to GR statistics makes it one of the most despised books on the website...Shanghai Baby was famously banned in China, and although failing to reach any huge level of greatness, clearly illustrates the character's self-centred after-every-expat nature. but this seems to be Shanghai in general. a complete destruction of this city would not turn it into Jerusalem. to some degree, criticism of the book is deserved in that it reflects the sort of "worst

Shanghai Baby (上海寳貝) by Zhou Weihui is the quintessential novel of the modern, middle-class Chinese woman living in the heady days of the early 90s as China underwent massive socio-economic changes. Semi-autobiographical in nature and with the link between fact and fiction blurred for marketing purposes, Shanghai Baby is replete with brand names, sexualised themes and empty dialogue. Commercialisation and materialism are glamorised to an obscene extent, with the protagonist at every opportunity

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.

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

How this book ever became a bestseller is beyond me. However, in a world where Fifity Shades of Grey is a bestseller, that really ought not be so surprising. At least this novel has a few good passages ( I didn't actually read Fifty Shades of Grey but I read quotes from it and they were, by far, the worst and most idiotic thing I have ever read in my life). However, those lyrical passages to be found in Shangai Baby don't exactly make for a good novel. Don't be fooled by lovely quotes like these

THE GOOD: The protagonist falls in love with an impotent man but finds a "sexy, Western man" to fill her "void". Said impotent man develops a drug habit while the German moves back to Berlin. What is she really left with?Of course, the author leaves us with a "who I'm I?" cliff-hanger moment near the end of the book which seems to be the major theme running throughout. From the reviews on here, one would describe the protagonist ("Coco") to be a heartless, selfish, and deeply narcissistic

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.