Wang Anyi

Wang Anyi
Wang Anyi
Born	March 6, 1954 (age 70); Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Language	Chinese
Period	1975–present
Genre	fiction, prose
Literary movement	Xungen movement
Notable works	The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (1995)
Spouse	Li Zhang (李章)
Relatives	Ru Zhijuan, mother; Wang Xiaoping, father;
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	王安憶
Simplified Chinese	王安忆
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Wáng Ānyì

Wang Anyi (born 6 March 1954) is a Chinese writer,^[1] vice-chair of the China Writers Association since 2006, and professor in Chinese Literature at Fudan University since 2004.

Wang widely write novels, novellas, short stories and essays with diverse themes and topics. The majority of her works are set in Shanghai, where she lived and worked for the majority of her life. Wang also regularly writes about the countryside in Anhui, where she was "sent down" during the Cultural Revolution. Her works have been translated into English, German and French, and studied as zhiqing (educated youth), xungen (roots-searching), Haipai (Shanghai style), and dushi (urban, cosmopolitan) literature.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Di, Bai; Lin, Huang (2013). "Wang Anyi". In Moran, Thomas; Xu, (Dianna) Ye (eds.). Chinese Fiction Writers, 1950-2000. Detroit, MI: Gale, a Cengage Company. ISBN 978-0-7876-9645-0.

[:0-1] Di, Bai; Lin, Huang (2013). "Wang Anyi". In Moran, Thomas; Xu, (Dianna) Ye (eds.). Chinese Fiction Writers, 1950-2000. Detroit, MI: Gale, a Cengage Company. ISBN 978-0-7876-9645-0.

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