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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 Consuming the Exotic Oriental Woman : Butterflies, Books and Shanghai Baby
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The author sees the stereotypical erotic images of 'Asian' women on book covers as continuing the sexual colonisation of the Third World exemplified by the 'Butterfly trope'. However, today oriental women's voices are being heard in their own right. Wei Hui's semi-autobiographical character Coco in Shanghai Baby both craves a Western lifestyle, and remains attached to her Chinese 'soul'.

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