Rachel DeWoskin (born 1972, Kyoto, Japan) is an American actress and
author. She is a 2012 recipient of the Alex Awards.DeWoskin was raised
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she attended the alternative Community
High School. The daughter of a Sinology professor at the University of
Michigan, she majored in English and studied Chinese at Columbia
University in New York City.She went to Beijing in 1994 to work as a
public-relations consultant and later starred in a Chinese nighttime
soap opera, the hugely successful Foreign Babes in Beijing, which was
watched by approximately 600 million viewers. DeWoskin played the
character of Jiexi. As Reuters noted, the show was a "sort of Chinese
counterpart to Sex and the City revolving around Chinese-Western
culture clashes." At the time, she was one of the few foreign
actresses working in mainland China and was considered a sex
symbol.DeWoskin returned to the United States in 1999 and earned a
master's degree in poetry from Boston University. In 2005, W. W.
Norton published her memoir, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the
Scenes of a New China. The New Yorker commented that "DeWoskin's
cleverly layered account thus charts parallel culture clashes, one
that she experiences as a Western woman in modern China, and the
other, a TV-ready version of the first, tailored to Chinese
expectations." Paramount Pictures purchased the film rights, and the
project remains in production. The director and screen adaptor
attached to the film is Alice Wu.
author. She is a 2012 recipient of the Alex Awards.DeWoskin was raised
in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she attended the alternative Community
High School. The daughter of a Sinology professor at the University of
Michigan, she majored in English and studied Chinese at Columbia
University in New York City.She went to Beijing in 1994 to work as a
public-relations consultant and later starred in a Chinese nighttime
soap opera, the hugely successful Foreign Babes in Beijing, which was
watched by approximately 600 million viewers. DeWoskin played the
character of Jiexi. As Reuters noted, the show was a "sort of Chinese
counterpart to Sex and the City revolving around Chinese-Western
culture clashes." At the time, she was one of the few foreign
actresses working in mainland China and was considered a sex
symbol.DeWoskin returned to the United States in 1999 and earned a
master's degree in poetry from Boston University. In 2005, W. W.
Norton published her memoir, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the
Scenes of a New China. The New Yorker commented that "DeWoskin's
cleverly layered account thus charts parallel culture clashes, one
that she experiences as a Western woman in modern China, and the
other, a TV-ready version of the first, tailored to Chinese
expectations." Paramount Pictures purchased the film rights, and the
project remains in production. The director and screen adaptor
attached to the film is Alice Wu.
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