A Book Trailer to Remember

I received a myspace friend request today from, Yu- Han Chao, a young Taiwanese woman living in California. She’s promoting her collection of stories, PASSPORT BABY, and she came up with this video book trailer. Here’s the quote she offers from the book: “You know what yuan zu socializing is, right? Like in Japan, the high school girls date older, usually married men in exchange for money, that kind of socializing. Yuan zu, to help the girls’ pockets. You know how expensive clothes and cute knick knacks are in Japan. Don’t be too fast to judge them, though, don’t call the Japanese middle-aged men perverts and the schoolgirls who sell their company, used underwear, and sometimes bodies, prostitutes. It happens in Taiwan, too…” (Passport Baby, Yu-Han Chao)

There are lots of relevant discussions on the web about book trailers, but, really, they rarely get any better than Yu-Han Chao’s. Though I confess that I never get tired of seeing this one: 😉