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Zhou Weihui is a Chinese writer, living and working in Shanghai and 
New York. She is known in the West also as "Wei Hui".
Her novel Shanghai Baby (2000) was banned in the People's
Republic of China as "decadent". Her latest novel Marrying Buddha

(2005) was censored, modified and published in China under a modified title.
Wei Hui has been regarded by international media as a spokeswoman 
of the new generation of Chinese young women.
Publicly burned in China for its sensual nature and irreverent style, 
this novel is the semi-autobiographical story of Coco, a café waitress, 
who is full of enthusiasm and impatience for life. She meets a young man, 
Tian Tian, for whom she feels tenderness and love, but he is reclusive,
impotent and an increasing user of drugs. Despite parental objections, 
Coco moves in with him, leaves her job and throws herself into writing.