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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: 04/04/2006
ISBN: 9780060782771
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.32w x 1.10d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/13/2006 pg. 63
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2006 pg. 160
Booklist 03/01/2006 pg. 70
Library Journal 04/01/2006 pg. 88
Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 47