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Increased in a tight Chinese-American home, Val Wang dutifully acquired good grades, got piano lessons, and performed in a Chinese party troupe - until she shaved her mind and became a leftist. But Val's true mutiny was when she migrated to China, the land her parents experienced fled. In 1998, Val arrives in Beijing looking to find independence - but she detects her traditional family instead. She discovers a city rebelling against its origins, struggling to find a fresh, modern individuality like her. A thriving avant-garde subculture makes art work from the chaos in Beijing's gritty outskirts. Brilliantly noticed and winningly told, Beijing Bastard is a powerful story of a female finding her devote the planet and of China, as its early past offers way to a dazzling but uncertain future.

Category: China