Wang Qiyao Are. Shanghai Alleys

In the works of describing Shanghai, Wang AnYi mainly displayed the changes of the Shanghai city for the whole century. The paper is trying to analyze the Shanghai space from her extremely talented novel "ChangHenGe" . She lays aside the alley to the central status. She pays attention to the loneliness and the difficult survival position of female. She also unifies the character' s destiny and the big background of current political situation in daily life writing. The otherness in space reflects the author' s latent of the marginal consciousness and the non-homeland feeling.This novel has reflected the metropolis variation of Shanghai. Through the life of a woman in alley, Wang AnYi recalled and deducted the Shanghai city which actually has been survived in her memory and imagination for many years. The atmosphere of loneliness and floats filled the writer' s creating space. She inherited the tradition from the neo sensualist school. The author' s latent of the marginal consciousness and the non- homeland feeling exist everywhere of the work. As experienced in the Great Revolution, Mao Dun wanted to describe is the great hero. Wang AnYi closes to the daily life history, she approaches the folk, the bourgeois and the consumptive of Shanghai. Zhang AiLing is the person who can really catches the appeal of the 1930' s Shanghai life. But Wang AnYi has the truly understanding of "the vicissitudes feeling" to Shanghai.The most life time of Wang QiYao is rather common. She really grows in this city, and she has simple but the tenacious understanding to the life. From her life, we can find out when the earth-shaking changes happened in the form of society, the life in the alley can still go on according to one self s pattern which is inherited from generation to generation. This is this city' s constant condition. Wang AnYi is really sincere to the history and the reality. In the novel of "Chang HenGe" , she let the history appears as the original appearance. She inquires about the individual life, the survival secret. Under the environment of the losing in the humanities spirit, Wang AnYi still hold' s her ground as a thinker in her works.