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The People's Republic of Desire

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The People's Republic of Desire

An uncensored, eye-opening, and laugh-out-loud funny portrait of modern China as seen through the lives and loves of four professional women in contemporary Beijing.

Divorce, oral sex, plastic surgery. Indulging in a Starbucks coffee, admitting to the emotional repercussions of a one-night stand, giggling over watching pornography.

These once taboo subjects have become the substance of daily conversations and practices among urban women in contemporary Beijing. It seems that no one remembers what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989.

A cross between Sex and the City and The Joy Luck Club, The People's Republic of Desire follows four sassy gals as they preen and pounce among Beijing's Westernized professional class, exultantly obsessed with brand names, celebrity, and sex.
 

The People's Republic of Desire
by Annie Wang

  • Publication Date: April 4, 2006
  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
  • ISBN-10: 0060782773
  • ISBN-13: 9780060782771