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Shanghai Baby is a novel written by Chinese author Wei Hui. It was originally published in China in 1999. The English translation was published in 2001. Plot. 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.
May 18, 2007 · It revolves around endless nights spent in the Shanghai club and art scene, sex, literature and the writing of her first novel. Her life takes an unexpectedly complicated turn when she suddenly feels attracted to two very opposite men.
Aug 1, 2002 · 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.
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Dec 9, 2020 · Shanghai baby by Zhou, Weihui, 1973-Publication date 2001 Topics Women authors -- Fiction, Single women -- Sexual behavior -- China -- Shanghai -- Fiction ...
Dark and edgy, deliciously naughty, an intoxicating cocktail of sex and the search for love, Shanghai Baby has already risen to cult status in mainland China.
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- August 01, 2002
Feb 2, 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...
Jun 28, 2001 · SHANGHAI BABY is a beautiful novel. The language is poetic and sensual yet funny and brutally honest. Coco is frank in her confusions, frustrations, elations, and joys. She is joined by a bevy of interesting characters, including a former madam, a computer hacker, a bisexual fashion stylist, an avant-garde filmmaker, drug addicts ...
