China Book Reviews: Repeat after me, a novel, by Rachel DeWoskin
While China says women hold up half the sky, nothing could be farther from the truth when it comes to literature about China (especially foreign women in China). Then I discovered Rachel DeWoskin’s Foreign Babes in Beijing. While it still isn’t in the top ten reading list of China nonfiction on Amazon (probably because it’s […]
Foreign Babes in Beijing Video Clips — see Rachel DeWoskin as Jiexi
This is a companion to my Foreign Babes in Beijing Book Review — or for anyone who has read the book. If you’re dying to see what Rachel DeWoskin looked like as Jiexi, or see Louisa, Tianliang, and Tianming, this will satisfy. It’s a 16 minute clip, apparently made from a company who sells the […]
More Beijing than just Babes: Book Review of Foreign Babes in Beijing
Let’s clear up a few things first. Despite the title of Foreign Babes in Beijing — and the suggestive picture of a foreign girl in a sultry little silk black dress, fishnet hose and stilettos, towering over what seems to be her Chinese hotel fling for the evening — this is not a book about […]