Wang An - Yi 's Shanghai Story

In the history of Chinese literature in the 20th century, Shanghai, a legendary and unique city of immigrants, enjoying the modern metropolis of the "Paris of the Orient" reputation, particularly attracted much attention. It is an important object of a number of writers writing. At that time there have been a series of works with Shanghai as the performance of background, displayed Chinese people living in the city of Shanghai’s customs, emotional way, value judgments and survival status, also extended to the writers themselves’understanding, expectations, memories and imagination of Shanghai, which demonstrated in their creative process, including their emotional attitudes and value judgments, such work is the so-called Shanghai writing. Wang Anyi is undoubtedly a very important one of the writers in Shanghai writing, her writing of Shanghai is not only inherit and carry forward the traditions and art forms of previous writing (for example, to a certain extent on the development of Shanghai Literature), more importantly, explores the aesthetic forms and values of everyday city life with a unique perspective position, and develops and remodels the citizens of Shanghai style. She described the story of Shanghai, with the city of Shanghai and women living in Shanghai for writing object, laid out a series of daily life picture natural, and always paid attention to the survival of ordinary women form, expressing the unnoticed toughness and rustic inner beauty in the trivialization of life. Wang Anyi has always maintained a rational account of attitude and a clear cultural consciousness continue to explore the complex relationships of combing women (including her own) and the Shanghai city, unremitting pursues the good of humanity, and conveys a positive life values and ideals through her works. Wang Anyi’s Shanghai narrative, practices a more solid form of life by the novel. Internal culture and spirit of Shanghai is closely linked to daily life and the public sectors, it is the ordinary women who highlight this extraordinary city and a solid foundation of life and cultural implication, which also reveals the Wang Anyi unique view of history and stick to folk sentiments.