abstract:Wang Anyi (王安忆, born in Nanjing in 1954) is a Chinese writer who is the chairwoman of Writers' Association of Shanghai. The daughter of a famous writer and member of the Communist Party, Ru Zhijuan (茹志鹃), and a father who was denounced as a Rightist when she was three years old, Wang Anyi writes that she "was born and raised in a thoroughfare, Huaihai Road.
The descriptionofShanghai's history in Wang An-yiandSun Gan-lu's works shows adistinction in time, in whichtheculturalidentity of Shanghai is clearly disclosed.