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Twenty-five-year-old Nikki - whose friends call her Coco after Coco Chanel – is a young Shanghainese writer, fascinated by the West and Western culture. A graduate of Fudan University, Coco has written a successful collection of short stories, The Shriek of the Butterfly, which, unusually for China, have sexually frank themes written from a ...
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Aug 1, 2002 · From The New Yorker. A best-seller in China in 1999, before the government banned it and shut down its publisher, this autobiographical novel chronicles the reckless life of a young woman, nicknamed Coco (after Chanel), in contemporary Shanghai.
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Set in the centuries-old port city of Shanghai, the novel follows the days, and nights, of the irrepressibly carnal Coco, who waits tables in a café when she meets her first lover, a sensitive Chinese artist.
- Paperback
- August 01, 2002
Aug 7, 2002 · Searing a blistering image into the reader's imagination, Shanghai Baby provides an alternative travelogue into the back streets of a city and the hard-core escapades of today's liberated youth.
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- Wei Hui
Shanghai Baby. Paperback – 20 Feb. 2003. Coco is a Shanghai cafe waitress, full of enthusiasm for life. She falls in love with a young man, Tian Tian, for whom she feels tenderness and love but who is reclusive and impotent. Despite her parents' objections, she moves in with him.
- Zhou Wei Hui
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Aug 28, 2001 · Hardcover – 28 Aug. 2001. Coco, a twenty-five-year-old Shanghai waitress living with a handsome but impotent and drug-addicted Chinese artist, becomes embroiled in a passionate love affair with a married German, in a graphic, semi-autobiographical novel.
- WEI HUI
