Rachel DeWoskin has experienced fame on a scale unknown to most mere Nobel laureates. As one of two title babes in the Chinese nighttime television drama Foreign Babes in Beijing, which aired in 1995, she was seen by an estimated 600 million people. While this 10 percent of the world’s population think she is a typical American home-wrecking seductress, her new book, Foreign Babes in Beijing, reveals her to be a subtle scholar of Sino-American perceptions and misperceptions. In this lecture, Rachel DeWoskin will share with the audience her experience in China and her new book.

Speaker Rachel DeWoskin received her bachelor's degree from Columbia University and completed her MA in poetry at Boston University in 2000 after spending six years in China as a corporate consultant and soap opera actress. Her first book, Foreign Babes in Beijing, was published by Norton in 2005. She has published work in The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, The Ann Arbor Observer, Seneca Review, The New Delta Review, Nerve Magazine, Drumvoices Revue, Teachers & Writers Magazine, and anthologies by Thundersmouth Press and Three Rivers Press. She won an American Academy of Poets Award in 2000 and a Grolier Poetry Prize in 2002.

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