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This is a personal zine that details Ginny Yu's experiences as an American born Chinese living in Shanghai, China for a year and a half. It explains Chinese customs, products, and mentalities while giving Ginny's perspective on being a "banana" in China. She talks about language confusion, challenges with ordering food, common incidents of public indecency and lack of resource material on it, the waning club scene, children in crotch-less pants, and the make out movement in Shanghai. Her opinions on conservative older Chinese and more progressive young Chinese people are accompanied by guest reviews of popular soap operas, poems by her fellow study abroad friends, and copied interviews from City Weekend about art and club control. This zine uses cut and paste, photographs, and images of Chinese pop culture figures.