by Wei Hui · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408053620
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«Shanghai Baby» is the novel by Wei Hui, published by Planeta in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Coco, a young woman who wants to be a writer and lives in Shanghai. Entangled in a relationship with her Chinese boyfriend, a sensitive man with impotence problems, and with a German businessman, Coco seeks her place between love, desire, and the new urban China.
The work was originally published in 1999 in Chinese as Shanghai baobei; this Spanish edition appeared in 2004. The translation is by Romer Alejandro Cornejo and Lijana Arsovska.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction seeking urban stories with a female protagonist and a look at today's China.
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".
