From: rzhu@math.uwaterloo.ca (Rupert Zhu)
Subject: "Manhattan's China Lady" to Be Carried in HXWZ
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:22:17 GMT


Manhattan's China Lady
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Originally Published by:    Beijing Publishing House
Excerpted Version by:       "Book Digest" (Shanghai People's Publisher)


"Manhattan's China Lady" , a novel written by Zhou Li, is to be carried
in serial form in Hua Xia Wen Zhai (CND Chinese Magazine), starting from
this week (Oct. 16), over the next 5 weeks.  The following is a brief
review of the novel.  (Subscription information for HXWZ is enclosed at
the end.)

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2. "Manhattan's China Lady" by Zhou Li ................................. 21
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Publisher: Beijing Publishing House
           516 pages; $1.70

Bright Lights, Big Money - "If I can make it there, I'd make it anywhere,"
go the lyrics of the pop song about New York City. They might have been
written by Chinese emigre Zhou Li. Arriving in the U.S. metropolis from
Shanghai in 1985, she had $40 in her pocket. A university student majoring
in management and international trade, she supported herself by baby sitting
and waiting tables. Now she is on top of the heap and boasts, "I have my own
trading company and manage multimillion-dollar businesses." Not to mention a
ritzy town house and yearly vacations in Europe. Zhou, whose import firm
sells China-made textiles and other goods in the U.S., preaches the gospel
of equal opportunity in "Manhattan's China Lady", exhorting other Chinese to
follow her example. "Don't look down on yourselves ... Fear no setbacks!"

Chinese authors are discovering that there is money in writing about making
it big abroad. Zhou's autobiography is well on the way to becoming a best
seller; "A Beijinger in New York" was a hit earlier this year with its
rags-to-riches account by violinist-turned-businessman Cao Guilin. Other
popular titles include "A Chinese Girl in Tokyo" and "My Fortune Is
in Australia". Books about Chinese abroad once focused on hardships; now they
paint a glowing picture, and Chines entrepreneurs who are eager to try their
skills in other countries are treating them as useful guides on how to
succeed in business by really trying.


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