By Rachel DeWoskin
“For a true insider’s examine lifestyles in glossy China, readers may still flip to Rachel DeWoskin.”―Sophie seashore, The Economist
made up our minds to expand her cultural horizons and reside a “fiery” lifestyles, twenty-one-year-old Rachel DeWoskin hops on a aircraft to Beijing to paintings for an American PR enterprise established within the busy capital. earlier than she understands it, she isn't just exploring chinese language tradition but additionally developing it because the horny, competitive, fearless Jiexi, the starring femme fatale in a wildly winning chinese language cleaning soap opera. Experiencing the cultural clashes in genuine existence whereas acting a fictional model onscreen, DeWoskin types a bunch of buddies with whom she witnesses the large alterations sweeping via China because the state pursues the hot maxim, “to get wealthy is glorious.” in just many years, China’s capital is reworked. With “considerable cultural and linguistic assets” (The New Yorker), DeWoskin captures Beijing at this pivotal juncture in her “intelligent, humorous memoir” (People), and “readers will suppose fortunate to have sharp-eyed, but sisterly, DeWoskin sitting within the driver’s seat”(Elle).
Read Online or Download Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China PDF
Best China books
1421: The Year China Discovered America
On March eight, 1421, the biggest fleet the realm had ever visible set sail from China to "proceed the entire method to the ends of the earth to assemble tribute from the barbarians past the seas. " whilst the fleet lower back domestic in October 1423, the emperor had fallen, leaving China in political and monetary chaos.
All the Flowers in Shanghai: A Novel
“Duncan Jepson magically inhabits the lifetime of a tender chinese language girl in Thirties Shanghai…. I completely loved this e-book. ”—Janice Y. okay. Lee, long island instances bestselling writer of The Piano Teacher“Breathtaking…. a superb paintings that may movement its readers. ”—Hong Ying, overseas bestselling writer of Daughter of the RiverReaders formerly enchanted by way of Memoirs of a Geisha, Empress, and the novels of Lisa See should be captivated by means of Duncan Jepson’s amazing debut, the entire flora in Shanghai.
Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese
Learn how to learn and write chinese language with Chineasy—a groundbreaking procedure that transforms key chinese language characters into pictograms for simple bear in mind and comprehension. chinese language is without doubt one of the oldest written languages, and some of the most tough to grasp, specifically for Westerners. With Chineasy, studying and interpreting chinese language hasn't ever been less complicated or extra enjoyable.
China A to Z: Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and Culture
A pragmatic and available consultant to an historical yet quickly altering culture—now revised and updated Perfect for enterprise, excitement, or armchair tourists, China A to Z explains the customs, tradition, and etiquette crucial for any journey or for an individual eager to comprehend this complicated state. in a single hundred short, reader-friendly essays alphabetized by means of topic, this absolutely revised and up-to-date variation offers a crash path within the etiquette and politics of up to date China in addition to the nation’s geography and venerable historical past.
Extra resources for Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
Then the previous guy mentioned Kate’s pulled abdominal with orderlies within the hallway. while she was once admitted into the exam room, there have been 4 girls accrued round. One was once donning a lab coat and 3 have been donning highway outfits. one of many ones in road outfits had a digital camera. “I want a being pregnant test,” Kate stated. the lady with the digicam took her photograph. “Congratulations! ” the healthcare professional acknowledged. “No, no,” Kate advised her, “I don’t are looking to be pregnant. ” the girl with the digicam requested, “You’re now not married? ” Kate flushed. “No,” she stated, “I’m no longer. ” the girl wrote this down. “Why are you writing that down? ” Kate requested. “I’m a reporter,” she stated, “I’m doing a narrative at the medical institution. will probably be fascinating for our neighborhood readers to grasp that foreigners get taken care of right here, too! It’s so fortunate that you just got here in this day on your being pregnant try out! ” “No,” Kate acknowledged. “I don’t are looking to be within the paper. not more photos and less of my tale. Please. ” The reporter wrote this down, too. The healthcare professional passed Kate a plastic cup for a urine pattern and despatched Kate out again to the rest room, which was once in a courtyard outdoors. Kate was once jogging again together with her steaming cup whilst a tender chinese language man approached her within the courtyard. The nurse was once anticipating her within the doorway of the clinic, followed through the journalist. Kate tucked the cup at the back of her. “Do you communicate English? ” the younger man requested. “Maybe we will perform English jointly. i'm a student,” he persevered. “No,” Kate stated, and persisted towards the sanatorium again door. “So unfriendly! ” the nurse stated while she back. “He simply desired to discover a good friend. ” The journalist took notes. “But i used to be inconvenienced, wearing my pee! ” Kate defended herself. The journalist nodded and persisted writing. again within the examination room, the physician checked out Kate’s effects. “Congratulations! ” she stated. “Oh, my god! ” Kate acknowledged. “Am I pregnant? ” “No! i presumed you didn’t are looking to be pregnant, that’s why I acknowledged congratulations. ” Kate went again to the inn and slept the remainder of the day. She left Kunming tomorrow, earlier than the morning papers got here out. She by no means informed Peter Pan the tale. whilst she informed me this tale within the Beijing suburbs, i used to be quite often shocked that her first love’s identify might have been Peter Pan. It grew to become out that Kate had given him the identify simply because he was once, as she positioned it, “youthful and positive. ” The identify Peter Pan characterised Kate in addition. She approached lifestyles, males, and Beijing with identical parts of enthusiasm and optimism. She used to be neither sarcastic nor jaded. I brooded, was once an insomniac, and both mistook my interactions at face worth or overanalyzed them. Kate was once a social organizer and spokesperson for Western ladies in China, a hybrid. She stated irrelevant issues in simple terms in English, and knew how and while to maintain quiet in a chinese language dialog. She was once no longer a showy expatriate, didn't ask of others “How lengthy have you ever been the following? ” or “How is your chinese language? ” and didn't flaunt her personal biaozhun, regular Beijing-speak. She was once fantastically fluent in chinese language, specially slang, a expertise she attributed to “pillow-talking” chinese language men.