Rose, Rose, I love you
By: Wang Chen-ho ; translated by Howard Goldblatt.
Contributors: Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
Series: Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Wang, Chen-ho, 1940- -- Translations into English
Description: In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho's ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective - and common sense - at the prospect of fleecing a shipload of lusty and lonely American soldiers. A rotund, excitable high school English teacher receives word that 300 GIs are coming from Vietnam for a weekend of R & R.

He persuades the owners of the Big 4 brothels that they will all take in more U.S. dollars if the pleasure girls can speak a little English; his plan is to train fifty specially selected prostitutes in a "Crash Course for Bar Girls." But what begins as a simple plan to teach a few English phrases quickly becomes absurdly elaborate: courses will include an "Introduction to American Culture," a crash course on global etiquette, and a workshop in personal hygiene taught by Dr. "Venereal" Wang.