# What is the song "China Girl" about?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 4, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296 "2009-11-04T17:24:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296/21 "2009-11-05T16:51:08Z")

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> [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](#):
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> Also, this on one of the worst Iggy Pop songs ever, can we talk about Lust For Life? 😃

Ah yes, a perfectly hummable tune about a smiling, white family on a Caribbean vacation.

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**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296/22 "2009-11-05T17:09:11Z")

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> [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](#):
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> I have a biography were Iggy talks about the person (actually a Vietnamese woman) that he was madly in love with and wrote the song about. I’m in the midst of moving at the moment but I will be back later and dig out that particular volume.

Oh, who cares about what the author says. Do you know _nothing_ of modern literary criticism?

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**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296/23 "2009-11-05T17:24:06Z")

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> [@TWDuke](#):
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> Oh, who cares about what the author says. Do you know _nothing_ of modern literary criticism?

You do realize that I’m agreeing with you right?

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**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296/24 "2009-11-05T19:21:32Z")

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It was a kind of joke.

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**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296/25 "2009-11-05T19:29:35Z")

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> [@TWDuke](#):
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> It was a kind of joke.

I was hoping so. Sometimes it’s hard to tell on here. No worries then. 😉

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**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296/26 "2009-11-06T01:53:13Z")

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So we have one poster who is David Bowie, and another who is clearly a thinly disguised David Bowie (Thin White Duke). Which of you is the _real_ David Bowie, and which the sock?

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**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296/27 "2009-11-06T18:20:01Z")

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I am the sock.

And the walrus.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296/28 "2009-11-06T19:57:58Z")

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I’m Brian, and so is my wife.

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**Author:** ![MannyL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@MannyL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MannyL)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-china-girl-about/516296/29 "2009-11-08T14:50:25Z")

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I am the eggman

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