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there's no reason that it should have taken me almost a week to read this book. sadly, i spend too much time getting stressed out about things that don't really matter, and not enough time reading. it's sort of my plight. i think.
anyway, this book was really good. matt and i saw it somewhere a few months ago, and we were both intrigued by the title/subject matter. it's about a woman who graduates from college and goes to work for an american pr firm in beijing. she ends up acting in a new chinese soap opera called foreign babes in beijing, which is essentially about the clash between china and the west, and portrays american girls as vixens and homewreckers. this memoir is about more than the show, though. it's about the author's whole experience as a foreigner in china, and it's really well done. dewoskin does a really good job of incorporating cultural and historical context without slowing things down or sounding too teachy. my favorite part in the whole book is when she talks about the success of who moved my cheese? in china, and explains that it spawned a bunch of spin-off books, with names like whose cheese should i move? and i don't bother to move your cheese.
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