{"title":"Anyi Wang","description":"Wang Anyi began her career as a writer in 1978. Her books in English include Lapse of Time, Love in a Small Town, Love on a Barren Mountain, Brocade Valley, and the novel Baotown, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year award. She currently lives in Shanghai and is a professor of Chinese literature at Fudan University. Michael Berry is associate professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the translator of several novels and the author of Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy, A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film, and Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers. Susan Chan Egan, an independent scholar, is the author of A Latterday Confucian: Reminiscences of William Hung 1893-1980 and coauthor of A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit: The Half-Century Romance of Hu Shi and Edith Clifford Williams.","products":[{"product_id":"the-song-of-everlasting-sorrow-a-novel-of-shanghai-paperback","title":"The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in post-World War II Shanghai, \u003ci\u003eThe Song of Everlasting Sorrow\u003c\/i\u003e follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the \u003ci\u003elongtong\u003c\/i\u003e, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInfatuated 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. During the next four decades, Wang Qiyao indulges in the decadent pleasures of pre-liberation Shanghai, secretly playing mahjong during the antirightist Movement and exchanging lovers on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Surviving the vicissitudes of modern Chinese history, Wang Qiyao emerges in the 1980s as a purveyor of \"old Shanghai\"--a living incarnation of a new, commodified nostalgia that prizes splendor and sophistication--only to become embroiled in a tragedy that echoes the pulpy Hollywood noirs of her youth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the violent persecution of communism to the liberalism and openness of the age of reform, this sorrowful tale of old China versus new, of perseverance in the face of adversity, is a timeless rendering of our never-ending quest for transformation and beauty.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51460012146911,"sku":"9780231143431","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7DKsPAB-cG9780231143431.webp?v=1790369766"},{"product_id":"years-of-sadness-selected-autobiographical-writings-of-wang-anyi-paperback","title":"Years of Sadness: Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. 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