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Annie Wang, a native of Beijing and a UC Berkeley graduate, travels back and forth between South China and Northern California. She is an acute and entertaining observer of the hot trend to Westernization in China.
In the preface to her novel THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF DESIRE (published by HarperPaperback Original in April 2006), Annie Wang reflects :
"I love ancient China, but I live in modern China. And, at least in the case of this paradox, time is the eternal victor…It seems only two types of people exist [in China today]: those who admire power and wealth and those who are being admired for their power and wealth."
Wang, hailed as a "striking new literary voice" by the Los Angeles Times, examines the paradoxes and cultural challenges of life in modern China through the prism of four professional women in contemporary Beijing.