Wang Anyi wordt geprezen om haar realistische stijl, gericht op de texturen van het dagelijkse stadsleven. Haar verhalen verbeelden onverschrokken de brutaliserende dichtheid, het onbeschofte gedrang en het eindeloze, vaak vergeefse wachten dat de existentie in China's uitgestrekte metropolen kenmerkt. Ze plaatst haar verhalen vaak in Shanghai en beeldt de sfeer van de stad en haar inwoners uit met levendige details. Haar prozastijl nodigt uit tot vergelijkingen met Eileen Chang, een andere prominente schrijfster uit Shanghai.
Fu Ping is a keenly observed portrait of the lives of lower-class women in Shanghai in the early years of the People's Republic of China. Wang Anyi, one of contemporary China's most acclaimed authors, explores the daily lives of migrants from rural areas and other people on the margins of urban life.
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment of stardom becomes the pinnacle of her life. After the Communist victory, Wang Qiyao continues to indulge in the decadent pleasures of the Shanghai bourgeoisie, secretly playing mahjong during the antirightist campaign and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. She reemerges in the 1980s as a purveyor of "old Shanghai," only to become embroiled in a tragedy that echoes the Hollywood noirs of her youth.
A true story based on Wang's experiences in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, Love in a Small Town is also the author's personal exploration into human nature and sexuality. Written at a time when sex was still a taboo subject in China, the book's real innovation is not its sexual explicitness, but its acknowledgement of sexual love as a powerful force in a human life.
"In two novellas and three short stories, Wang Anyi describes various aspects of life in modern China, centered mainly around Shanghai, Xuzhou, and northern Jiangsu province"--
The engineering profession has made a significant and distinguished contribution to Chinese society over the past century. It is a contribution, however, which has received little attention from historians apart from the lives of a handful of the most notable engineers. This paper intends to remedy the deficiency by providing an overview of engineers' origins and development in China from 1949 to 1989. In this paper, the author attempts to analyze the developmental history of Chinese engineers by combining technology, culture and society to explore the factors affecting the development of engineers in socialist China. By reviewing the literature and empirically investigating biographical and bibliometric data, this dissertation not only demonstrates the development of the Chinese engineering profession, but also reveals characteristics of engineers' education, career patterns and social status from 1949-1989.
Titi, petite poupée au mince visage de porcelaine, vive et effrontée, passe des mains d'un homme à un autre, en un chassé-croisé amoureux où chacun se désire, se fuit, se blesse, se retrouve dans les nuits de Shanghai. Ateliers d'artistes au bord de l'eau, galerie d'avant-garde, fêtes et lieux à la mode. Loin d'être un décor, Shanghai est le coeur flamboyant de l'intrigue, imprévisible, excessive, mystérieuse. Ces personnages ont parfois un appétit de vivre si insatiable que le réel ne peut suffire à le satisfaire, seuls l'art, l'imaginaire, peuvent le faire car ils sont sans limites. Puis, les lumières de la nuit éteintes, on découvre que la main du magicien est passée par là, puis repartie.
