Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China

by RachelDeWoskin (Author)

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  2006

  $3.29

  Hoping to improve her Chinese and broaden her cultural horizons, Rachel DeWoskin went to work for an American PR firm in China. Before she knew it, she was not just exploring, but making Chinese culture - as the sexy and aggressive, fearless Jiexi, star of a wildly successful soap opera. A Chinese counterpart to Sex and 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 on screen, Rachel forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim '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.

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $15.61

  Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a fiery life, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a plane to Beijing to work for an American PR firm based in the busy capital. Before she knows it, she is not just exploring Chinese culture but also creating it as the sexy, aggressive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly successful Chinese soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in real life while performing a fictional version onscreen, DeWoskin forms a group of friends with whom she witnesses the vast changes sweeping through China as the country pursues the new maxim, to get rich is glorious. In only a few years, China's capital is transformed. With considerable cultural and linguistic resources (The New Yorker), DeWoskin captures Beijing at this pivotal juncture in her intelligent, funny memoir (People), and readers will feel lucky to have sharp-eyed, yet sisterly, DeWoskin sitting in the driver's seat (Elle).