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W

hen Ann Arbor-bred Rachel
DeWoskin was starring in a
Chinese soap opera a
decade ago, the National Enquirer did
a story claiming that "the hottest TV
star in China is an American girl."
DeWoskin's mother, Judith
DeWoskin, telephoned to tell her,
excitedly, that she'd read the article.
Shocked that her English teacher
mom would actually buy the
Enquirer, DeWoskin asked, "Why not
read it online?"
"I bought a hundred copies," her
mom replied.
Rachel DeWoskin shares that story
in Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the
Scenes of a New China (W.W. Norton
& Company; $24.95), her recently
published memoir that has charmed
editors at publications ranging from
the Wall Street Journal to
Entertainment Weekly, which ran a
photo of the striking Columbia grad
with the caption 'A Real China Doll."
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Recently in Ann Arbor to do a read-
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time with her then 8-month-old baby,
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by "how generous" the reaction has
been. A petite, tiny-waisted woman
who looks much younger than her 32
years, she adds, "It's my first book,
and I didn't expect it to be reviewed
in the New York Times and the New
Yorker.
She attributes the response to
Americans' "tremendous interest in
China."
But DeWoskin is being modest
about how cleverly she capitalized on
her adventures in Beijing, where she
lived from 1994 to 1999. She was by
no means a newcomer to China; her
father, former U-M Chinese Studies
Professor Ken DeWoskin, had taken
his family there several times.
But she was fresh out of Columbia
University with an imperfect corn-
mand of Mandarin Chinese when she
landed a job doing PR for an
American company in Beijing. Two
months after she arrived, through a
chance contact, she got an audition
for Chinese TV; she was cast as an
American temptress in Foreign Babes

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