| 29th April 2003 |
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| "Shanghai baby" Shanghai Baby has been hailed as a new kind of urban novel, a cross between Catcher in the Rye and On the Road. After 80,000 copies had been sold, Beijing authorities banned the book but it went on to become a pirated bestseller. Now its author, 27-year-old Zhou Wei Hui, is an international success story. Barry Forshaw met her in London. For someone who has been described by the authorities in her country as "decadent, debauched and a slave of foreign culture", the diminutive and likable Zhou Wei Hui seems a surprising object of hatred for the Chinese Press and Publishers Bureau (the State censorship body) which has publicly burned 40,000 copies of her remarkable novel Shanghai Baby. From http://www.dixon-spain.co.uk/shanghaibaby/interview/books.htm |
| I finish reading this book in one day. Once strat I just can't stop. The story is about a writer in Shanghai...she quit her job at the magazine then become a waitress in a coffee shop and fall in love with one of the customer...blah blah blah.... wanna know more I guess you should read it for yourself. If I tell everything it's not fun then. Thing that catch my thought is the culture... people in the western culture that came to Shanghai people's life.. .in the same way that came to all over south east asia...including Thailand... it's affect a lot with people especailly in the big city like Bangkok... we accept the culture and we try to apply to use it our way... for some reason we got confuse which should we accept or which we shouldn't . Some western culture might look good and very romatic but in the sight of some asian people we just don't suit it� In the matter of fact conservative and the modernism living in the same town. This planet never stop moving �new generation coming up to take the ancestor places �things change every minuite of our life and there is nothing last forever. I just hope�nobody will order to burn my book when it come up� tho...:-) |
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