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FOREIGN BABES IN BEIJING
Behind the Scenes of a New China
In the tradition of the movie "Lost in Translation" this is the author's account about her years in China.
When 21-year-old Rachel DeWoskin arrives in Beijing in 1994 to have an adventure, China is recovering from the government crackdown following the Tiananmen Square uprising. Within a few years, billboards, brand names, discos, divorce, cosmetic surgery and cross-cultural affairs transform the face of China’s capital. As China charges into the 21st century, Rachel finds herself starring on primetime television as the American vixen Jiexi, a sultry “foreign babe,” in love with Chinese culture and Chinese men.
Rachel DeWoskin’s most recent novel, Big Girl Small, (FSG 2011) is the recipient of the 2012 American Library Association’s Alex Award and was named one of the top 3 books of 2011 by Newsday. Her memoir, Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton 2005) about the years she spent in China as the unlikely star of a Chinese soap opera, has been published in 6 countries and is being developed as a television series by HBO. Her debut novel Repeat After Me (Overlook Press, 2009), which follows the unexpected romance between a young American ESL teacher and a troubled Chinese radical, won a Foreward Magazine Book of the Year award. Rachel has written essays and articles for Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine of London, Teachers and Writers, and Conde Nast Traveler, and has published poems in journals including Ploughshares, Seneca Review, New Delta Review, Nerve Magazine and The New Orleans Review. She teaches memoir and fiction at the University of Chicago, and divides her time between Chicago and Beijing with her husband, playwright Zayd Dohrn, and their two little girls.
Rachel DeWoskin’s most recent novel, Big Girl Small, (FSG 2011) is the recipient of the 2012 American Library Association’s Alex Award and was named one of the top 3 books of 2011 by Newsday. Her memoir, Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton 2005) about the years she spent in China as the unlikely star of a Chinese soap opera, has been published in 6 countries and is being developed as a television series by HBO. Her debut novel Repeat After Me (Overlook Press, 2009), which follows the unexpected romance between a young American ESL teacher and a troubled Chinese radical, won a Foreward Magazine Book of the Year award. Rachel has written essays and articles for Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine of London, Teachers and Writers, and Conde Nast Traveler, and has published poems in journals including Ploughshares, Seneca Review, New Delta Review, Nerve Magazine and The New Orleans Review. She teaches memoir and fiction at the University of Chicago, and divides her time between Chicago and Beijing with her husband, playwright Zayd Dohrn, and their two little girls.
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