Shanghai Baby
Jianying Zha, author ofChina Pop: How Soap Opera, Tabloids, and Bestsellers Are Transforming a CultureSassy, breezy, shrewd, an impressive debut of a talented young writer. Heralding a new literary personality on the scene of the Chinese urban novel,Shanghai Babyis peopled with nimble-witted hedonists. In the eyes of traditional, mainstream society, they are moral degenerates and self-serving rebels. But from the point of view of the new commercial mainstream, they are crystal bubbles moving with the tide to better display their own beauty.The New York TimesThis book is one of the ?rst to portray Wei Hui's generation of urban women, born in the 1970s, as they search for moral grounding in a country of shifting values.The Times(London)A steamy Chinese novel in the Western style about life in contemporary China, condemned for exposing subjects that are completely taboo in modern Chinese literature.--This text refers to theUnboundedition.