| Fu Ping Contributor(s): Wang, Anyi (Author), Goldblatt, Howard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 023119322X ISBN-13: 9780231193221 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $59.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - Chinese - Literary Criticism | Asian - General |
| Dewey: 895.135 |
| LCCN: 2018060636 |
| Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (1.05 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age - Cultural Region - Chinese - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residential lanes and courtyards behind Shanghai's busy shopping streets, the less she wants to return to the country as a dutiful wife. As Fu Ping wavers over her future, she learns the city through the stories of the nannies, handymen, and garbage collectors whose labor is bringing life and bustle back to postwar 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. In shifting perspectives rich in detail and psychological insight, she sketches their aspirations, their fears, and the subtle ties that bind them together. In Howard Goldblatt's masterful translation, Fu Ping reveals Wang Anyi's precise renderings of history, class, and the human heart. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wang, Anyi: - 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, Baotown, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year award, and Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Columbia, 2008).Goldblatt, Howard: - Howard Goldblatt, a Guggenheim Fellow, is an internationally renowned translator of Chinese fiction, including the novels of Mo Yan, the 2012 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. |