by Wei Hui · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548840109
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«Shanghai Baby» is Wei Hui's semi-autobiographical novel, published by Pocket in paperback (310 pages, in German).
Semi-autobiographical novel starring Coco, a young waitress who wants to be a writer and is torn between Tian Tian, a withdrawn boy with drug problems, and Mark, a married Westerner. Set in Shanghai in the nineties, it speaks of love, betrayal and the search for identity in a China on the brink of its social and sexual revolution.
The German edition was published in 2004. The novel was banned in China for its sensual content and irreverent style, and became a clandestine success.
For readers of contemporary Chinese literature and fiction that explores desire, identity and transgression.
Zhou Wei Hui, known simply by her Chinese given name Wei Hui, is a Chinese novelist, living and working in Shanghai and New York City. Her novel Shanghai Baby (上海宝贝) (1999) was banned in the People's Republic of China as "decadent". Her latest novel Marrying Buddha (我的禅) (2005) was censored, modified and published in China under a modified title. She is often associated with Mian Mian, another slightly older member of the "New Generation".
