Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai

Wang Anyi is a Chinese writer, vice-chair of the China Writers Association since 2006 & a professor of Chinese Literature at Fudan University.

She writes novels, novellas, short stories & essays with diverse themes and topics. Much of her work is set in Shanghai, where she lived & worked for the majority of her life. She 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 & French, & studied as zhiqing (educated youth), xungen (roots-searching), Haipai (Shanghai style), & dushi (urban, cosmopolitan) literature.

Wang Anyi was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2011.