{"id":29873,"date":"2006-09-01T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/09\/01\/youre-white-do-you-want-to-be-in-my-friends-soap-opera\/"},"modified":"2006-09-01T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T10:00:34","slug":"youre-white-do-you-want-to-be-in-my-friends-soap-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060901-34\/?p=29873","title":{"rendered":"You&#039;re white. Do you want to be in my friend&#039;s soap opera?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> What does a Mandarin-speaking American woman in Beijing do? If you&#8217;re Rachel DeWoskin, you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4758137\"> serendipitously wind up the star of a daytime Mandarin-language soap opera called <i>Foreign Babes in Beijing<\/i><\/a>, a show that takes all the Western stereotypes (from the Chinese point of view) and milks them for all their melodramatic worth. (They probably watched too much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/dallas\/show\/543\/summary.html\"><i>Dallas<\/i><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a Mandarin-speaking American woman in Beijing do? If you&#8217;re Rachel DeWoskin, you serendipitously wind up the star of a daytime Mandarin-language soap opera called Foreign Babes in Beijing, a show that takes all the Western stereotypes (from the Chinese point of view) and milks them for all their melodramatic worth. (They probably watched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-29873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>What does a Mandarin-speaking American woman in Beijing do? If you&#8217;re Rachel DeWoskin, you serendipitously wind up the star of a daytime Mandarin-language soap opera called Foreign Babes in Beijing, a show that takes all the Western stereotypes (from the Chinese point of view) and milks them for all their melodramatic worth. (They probably watched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}