After graduating from college Rachel Dewoskin longed for excitement. She decided to use her college Chinese and found herself a job working in Beijing for a foreign relation company. She hates her job. The fact that she makes three times more then any of her coworkers makes her uncomfortable. The fact that she is spending her time trying to figure out the best way to market donuts to the Chinese makes her feel claustrophobic. On a fluke she tries out for a Chinese soap opera called Foreign Babes in Beijing, a show about two Chinese brothers who fall in love with and marry foreign babes. (Apparently due to the uneven numbers of men and women in China there is currently a push to have Chinese men marry outsiders). Rachel gets the job and for 80 yen an episode pretends to be the aggressive husband stealing Jiexi. On the Four Star Scale
Sap Factor () - None.
Naughty Bits (**) - Um Jiexi is a naughty husbanding stealing girl. Some potty language.
Readability (***) - 304 pages. Quick nice read that can be done in a day.
Final notes (***) - DeWoskin is in China as it opens to foreign business and more foreign ideals. I have always thought it was interesting that China while a communist country is so open to capitalism. Through DeWoskins eyes you really see that coming about. Also I understand where DeWoskin is coming from when she says that she needed to go out of the country to see what made her American and actually appreciate her country.
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i love love love this book. there are so many trashy chick memoirs out there that i love finding one that is both a) incredibly smart and revelatory on her topic, and b) laugh-out-loud funny. i happened on this book completely by accident (ok, it was the cover... i saw it on a face-out in a bookstore and couldn't NOT buy it) but it was a rewarding accident.
i'm part of a book review blog with a bunch of other people (thebookbook)... check it out if you're interested. you could double post the reviews you do here if you'd like... the more the merrier.
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