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By: Ginny Yu
Publisher: The author
Place of publication: Greensboro, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Chinese American women; Description and travel; Popular culture
Description: This is a personal zine that details Ginny Yu's experiences as an American born Chinese living in Shanghai, China for a year and a half. It explains Chinese customs, products, and mentalities while giving Ginny's perspective on being a "banana" in China. She talks about language confusion, challenges with ordering food, common incidents of public indecency and lack of resource material on it, the waning club scene, children in crotch-less pants, and the make out movement in Shanghai. Her opinions on conservative older Chinese and more progressive young Chinese people are accompanied by guest reviews of popular soap operas, poems by her fellow study abroad friends, and copied interviews from City Weekend about art and club control. This zine uses cut and paste, photographs, and images of Chinese pop culture figures.
Notes: Cover title.

Gift of Sabrina Margarita Alcantara, donated in 2009.
Table of contents: title: The rants, R1-R6; title: Diversions : --; title: An introduction to the UCD  -- Kingsley Edney; title: Building a fiercer club culture --; title: The Condor Bunch (TV series review)  -- Kingsley Edney; title: Shen Fan and simplicity --; title: The last days of hard rock --; title: Naughtiness :; title: Love notes and holey underpants --; title: Exposing the hidden dragon -- the surprising pervasiveness of public indecency in Shanghai --; title: Meet the Haier Boys --; title: The Practical Guide : --; title: Quality products (A catalog of treats) --; title: Goodnes in the city --; title: Survival food guide --; title: Poetry: --; title: Falling  -- Liz Wheeler; title: Untitled -- Dave Wheeler