Beijing Babies

Author: Chun Shu
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: It is undoubtedly admirable and heart-wrenching for someone to live a reckless life at a very young age and keep writing reckless words. Chun Shu, the author of Beijing Girls, is just such a reckless girl, and Beijing Girls itself is a collection of such reckless words. In this novel, you can see her every tiny joy followed by immense doubt and frustration; you can see her stubbornness and pride, yet she is also so self-deprecating and powerless; you can see how she tried to love again and again, only to have it buried by her own hands in the end; she wants to demand everything she desires from the world, but she doesn’t even know how to speak up. She blames herself for her clumsiness in speech, yet in reality, as long as someone shows her a little warmth, she becomes excited again. She is blind and impulsive, but she remains steadfastly pursuing freedom and ideals.