Beijing doll

a novel

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Pocketbok, 223 sidor

På English

Publicerades 25 juli 2004 av Riverhead Books.

ISBN:
978-1-59448-020-1
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OCLC-nummer:
55220255

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From Penguin Random House: "Banned in China for its candid exploration of a young girl’s sexual awakening yet widely acclaimed as being “the first novel of ‘tough youth’ in China” (Beijing Today), Beijing Doll cuts a daring path through China’s rock-and-roll subculture. This cutting edge novel — drawn from the diaries the author kept throughout her teenage years — takes readers to the streets of Beijing where a disaffected generation spurns tradition for lives of self expression, passion, and rock-and-roll. Chun Sue’s explicit sensuality, unflinching attitude towards sex, and raw, lyrical style break new ground in contemporary Chinese literature."

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I went back to Guodong. He always listened to me when I whined about how sad and lost I felt.

Good for him. So why did you have to inflict it on the rest of us?

The hype tries to sell Beijing Doll as a novel so controversial that it got banned by the Chinese government - exactly what "banned" means in this context isn't mentioned. I picked it up hoping for some insight into what it means to be a teenager in China today, but in the end, all it accomplishes is to demonstrate that self-obsessed 15-year-olds who think quoting Kurt Cobain in their diary makes them deep are alike all over the world.

I know a lot of people hate dark, pessimistic texts like this one, where you write about yourself as if it were someone else. If you can't stand it any longer you can stop reading …

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  • Sue, Chun -- Translations into English