《福布斯》推介
《上海女孩：如何攀上枝頭兼坐穩》
教你嫁個有錢人
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《上海女孩：如何攀上枝頭兼坐穩》
教你嫁個有錢人
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要嫁富二代，博他的父母歡心
釣有婦之夫，準備做情婦
娶富婆，學識要廣博（學馬術、駕帆船接近目標）
中國去年超越日本，成為全球第二大經濟體，繁榮富強舉世注目，投資者紛紛在互聯網、房地產、電訊等領域尋求發達機會。你沒有投資的興趣？不打緊，嫁個有錢中國人都是發達捷徑。靠色相換取安逸生活的原始方法，連美國財經雜誌《福布斯》（ Forbes）網站也推薦，在「 2011中國投資指南」特輯中，介紹了「如何嫁個有錢中國人」。
《福布斯》引述美國芝加哥市長戴利（ Richard Daley）說，中國近年來的新富一族，是「非常、非常、非常、非常的多」；四個「非常」，說明在中國釣金龜或富婆的機會不少，《福布斯》就引用《上海女孩：如何攀上枝頭兼坐穩》（ Shanghai Girls: Uncensored& Unsentimental: How to Marry Up & Stay There）一書，指出只要策略正確，恰似百度老闆李彥宏或搜狐創辦人古永鏘的金龜都唾手可得。
《上海女孩》作者是韓裔的漢伯裡－－特妮森（ Mina Hanbury-Tenison），她在美國長大，耶魯大學文學系畢業，是個職業作家，五年前隨丈夫到中國，定居上海，但不是「現代灰姑娘」。她的真知灼見，說來自「漂亮富有兼事業有成」的上海朋友「蘭蘭」，蘭蘭三次結婚、一次嫁得比一次好，是好一個誓要飛上枝頭的故事。
漢伯裡－－特妮森向《福布斯》說，中國有錢人分農民和城市富豪，前者靠販賣家畜、凍肉或廉價電子產品起家，後者透過製造業、房地產和投資賺錢，都在過去 10至 20年間發跡，但不管那類富豪，釣金龜最重要認清目標，那就是要釣「富一代」抑或「富二代」。
如果要釣富一代，漢伯裡－－特妮森指就必須有心理準備，他們都上了年紀、有了家室，多有「兩、三個情婦」，休想「坐正」，只要好好享受做情婦有車有樓有信用卡有奢華禮物的富泰優遊生活；若想要名份，就要釣 20來歲的富二代，但他們都「被寵壞」了，常常眾星伴月，要入門最好走未來老爺或奶奶政策，博得長輩好感，令他們相信你有本事管住「二世祖」。
除了釣金龜，漢伯裡－－特妮森指在中國「淘古井」追富婆都「很有潛力」，男方不需很富有，但必須有學歷、學識廣博、儀表高雅，能不卑不亢地迎合女方需要。
在漢伯裡－－特妮森還向《福布斯》說，中國有錢人包養情婦見慣不怪，別妄想和白馬王子結婚從此快快樂樂生活，要記住你目標只是嫁個有錢人。要保住地位，更要「自我增值」很重要，外國女郎應學習中文，因為「中國人在外地會變得脆弱，他們漂泊在外時若能幫他們一把，很容易就可鑽進他們的心裏和錢包裏」；也可去學騎馬、駕駛帆船或修讀商管碩士課程等，因為在這些地方較易接觸到目標。
《福布斯》推薦在中國釣金龜和富婆作為一種投資，講金不講心，也許是暴發社會的一種弊病了。
Shanghai Girls
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Written by Urbanatomy
《上海女孩》一書去年中面世後，引起不少爭議，據報更遭一些書店抵制，因該本 132頁的小書，不乏出位建議和評論，開宗明義提醒女孩淘金要錢就要不動感情，要利用青春、美色和性釣金龜，因為「男人很蠢」，而「大部份上海女孩，在床上都毫無顧忌，懂得利用身體令男人沉迷和依賴」，甚至說不只一個「男人離開妻子，全因女友願意＿＿──請自行填充，答案繁多，包括口交和肛交。」
鼓吹「不健康」思想
有人因而批評作者將上海女孩模式化，鼓吹「不健康」的思想。但亦有讀者認為作者對上海女孩的觀察和評論很有趣，如實反映一些女性「衝破傳統和禁忌，追求真正想要」的東西；有讀者認為是「很好笑」的娛樂讀物。
不過，作者的朋友就沒法如此輕鬆看待這本書了。漢伯里－特妮森說，書出版後她送了一本給一位50多歲旅居上海的外籍人士，這位朋友正正娶了一位 20多歲上海嬌妻，結果對方從此與她割席。
For better or worth
To marry rich… in addition to ruthlessness, you need confidence, a tasteful wardrobe and a passage to the good hunting grounds. Oh, and drop your sense of decency at the country-club coat check: willingness to bonk much older men is a must.
That’s about everything there is to learn from Shanghai Girls: Uncensored & Unsentimental, a 127-page gold-digging instruction manual by American Mina Hanbury-Tenison. She says the book’s advice comes from conversations with her wealthy girlfriend Lan Lan (a pseudonym), a thrice-married, thrice-divorced Shanghainese woman.
If you’re dense on what using sex for monetary gain entails, Lan Lan explains:
“I’ve heard of more than one man leaving his wife because his new girlfriend/future wife is willing to ____. You can fill in the blanks, but some of them involve oral acts, or orifices that many consider off limits…”
Ah, yes. Every modern girl should know the way to a man’s heart is through the back door.
The book avoids matters of conscience like the harm done to those starter husbands/boyfriends when they get traded up, or to the children born into unsavory circumstances. As far as ‘Shanghai girls’ are concerned, these people are pawns. The book calls one of its examples “very smart to seal the marriage by immediately producing a child after their wedding.”
Lan Lan and all women provided as examples are anonymous. Unsurprising given the subject matter, but it’s really something to write a book about women from one of the world’s largest cities and not have a single one vouch for it on the record.
People who make amoral calculations exist everywhere, but how unfair to ascribe such behavior to Chinese women from this city, without any qualification. Would it sit well if a similar book were entitled Black Girls?
“Obviously it doesn’t speak to 100 percent of the people who live here,” Hanbury-Tenison told That’s Shanghai. “But I think her attitude [Lan Lan’s] does embody many characteristics people attribute to Shanghai women.”
Hanbury-Tenison says the book is meant as a romp, it’s not to be taken too seriously. But a work that diminishes a group of women with some of the oldest, ugliest sexual and regional stereotypes just isn't a lighthearted read. //Shanghai Girls: Uncensored & Unsentimental is published by Make-Do Publishing
Why I Write:
Mina Hanbury-Tenison |
Why I Write
Written by JFK Miller
Written by JFK Miller
In 1946, George Orwell wrote an essay entitled Why I Write detailing the reasons why he put pen to paper. In this, our continuing Web series, we talk to China authors about their literary habits and reading preferences, and examine Orwell's question which lies at the heart of being an author – why they write
Mina Hanbury-Tenison is the author of Shanghai Girls Uncensored & Unsentimental: How To Marry Up and Stay There, an irreverent relationships guide based on conversations with her Shanghai girl-friend Lan Lan. Before moving to Shanghai five years ago with her husband and two children, Mina worked in Los Angeles writing screenplays. In addition to her works of fiction, she has written articles and essays about her experiences in China for the South China Morning Post, China International Business, the Financial Times and Oriental Outlook. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Literature.
Why I writeI write because a story takes a hold in my head and I can’t shake it until I get it down on paper.
Do you write every day? If so, how many hours?
I do not write every day. I write in spurts. When I get into my writing period, I start by writing four or five hours a day (much of this is a fallow period of two, three hours of fiddling my thumbs and looking through the previous day’s output; it’s not until the last two hours when finally something comes through). I divide up my writing into two parts - the writing I do because I feel compelled to and writing I do to make money. My work as a freelancer takes up a lot of my writing space.
Worst source of distraction?
Computer and e-mails. And coffee with friends.
Best source of inspiration?
Conversations I overhear. Strange things I see on the streets. Encounters that leave a salient image in my head. Amazing and amusing stories that people tell me.
How often do you get writers' block/doubt your own ability?
Often.
Contemporary writer in any medium who you never miss?
One contemporary writer I will always read is J.M. Coetzee; he’s inimitable and always surprising.
Favorite Chinese writer?
My current favorite Chinese writer is Yu Hua. When I finished his Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, I thought this man is destined for the Nobel Prize.
Best book about China?
Nien Cheng’s Life and Death in Shanghai - a calm and measured look at those tumultuous years in the 1970s. I understood more about Shanghai and what happened during those dark years from this one single book then ten other books I read on the topic.
Favorite book?I couldn’t name just one. But the tales in the Old Testament are always fascinating (very bowdlerized so they leave a lot of room for imagination). I love the controversies surrounding the New Testament.
Favorite writer?
Dostoevsky. He lived and wrote in such extreme times. He is the only author whose book had me doubting reality. While I was reading his Crime and Punishment, I had to constantly remind myself that I wasn’t the murderer on the run.
The book you should have read but haven't?
Too many to mention here.
You look back at the first thing you had published and think...
Gosh, writing is a long journey. I’m grateful for the people have supported me along the way.
How did you get started writing?
I started writing as a teenager, scripting mini skits for my classmates. I still think of myself as a dialogue writer. Can I capture that voice? The flow of her language? Her way of expressing herself?
Does writing change anything?
It changes the way people look at the world. It’s the single key to civilization. It imparts information. Everybody writes, in one form or another. It’s a very basic form of communication.
What are you working on now and when is it out?
I’m working on a book Lonely China, a collection of personal stories related to the single-child policy. I hope it will be out soon.
// Shanghai Girls Uncensored & Unsentimental: How To Marry Up and Stay There is published by Make-Do-PublishingDo you write every day? If so, how many hours?
I do not write every day. I write in spurts. When I get into my writing period, I start by writing four or five hours a day (much of this is a fallow period of two, three hours of fiddling my thumbs and looking through the previous day’s output; it’s not until the last two hours when finally something comes through). I divide up my writing into two parts - the writing I do because I feel compelled to and writing I do to make money. My work as a freelancer takes up a lot of my writing space.
Worst source of distraction?
Computer and e-mails. And coffee with friends.
Best source of inspiration?
Conversations I overhear. Strange things I see on the streets. Encounters that leave a salient image in my head. Amazing and amusing stories that people tell me.
How often do you get writers' block/doubt your own ability?
Often.
Contemporary writer in any medium who you never miss?
One contemporary writer I will always read is J.M. Coetzee; he’s inimitable and always surprising.
Favorite Chinese writer?
My current favorite Chinese writer is Yu Hua. When I finished his Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, I thought this man is destined for the Nobel Prize.
Best book about China?
Nien Cheng’s Life and Death in Shanghai - a calm and measured look at those tumultuous years in the 1970s. I understood more about Shanghai and what happened during those dark years from this one single book then ten other books I read on the topic.
Favorite book?I couldn’t name just one. But the tales in the Old Testament are always fascinating (very bowdlerized so they leave a lot of room for imagination). I love the controversies surrounding the New Testament.
Favorite writer?
Dostoevsky. He lived and wrote in such extreme times. He is the only author whose book had me doubting reality. While I was reading his Crime and Punishment, I had to constantly remind myself that I wasn’t the murderer on the run.
The book you should have read but haven't?
Too many to mention here.
You look back at the first thing you had published and think...
Gosh, writing is a long journey. I’m grateful for the people have supported me along the way.
How did you get started writing?
I started writing as a teenager, scripting mini skits for my classmates. I still think of myself as a dialogue writer. Can I capture that voice? The flow of her language? Her way of expressing herself?
Does writing change anything?
It changes the way people look at the world. It’s the single key to civilization. It imparts information. Everybody writes, in one form or another. It’s a very basic form of communication.
What are you working on now and when is it out?
I’m working on a book Lonely China, a collection of personal stories related to the single-child policy. I hope it will be out soon.
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