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Fu Ping : A Novel / Anyi Wang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Anyi, Author.
- Series:
- Weatherhead books on Asia.
- Weatherhead Books on Asia
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women internal migrants--Fiction.
- Women internal migrants.
- Shanghai (China)--Fiction.
- Shanghai (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Author's Note
- Chapter One. Nainai
- Chapter Two. Employer
- Chapter Three. Fu Ping
- Chapter Four. Lü Fengxian
- Chapter Five. Girls' School
- Chapter Six. Liar
- Chapter Seven. Qi Shifu
- Chapter Eight. The Grands
- Chapter Nine. Aunt
- Chapter Ten. Sun Daliang
- Chapter Eleven. Xiao Jun
- Chapter Twelve. Opera House
- Chapter Thirteen. To The Opera
- Chapter Fourteen. New Year's
- Chapter Fifteen. After New Year's
- Chapter Sixteen. Grandson
- Chapter Seventeen. No Good- Byes
- Chapter Eighteen. Uncle And Niece
- Chapter Nineteen. Mother And Son
- Chapter Twenty. The Flood
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780231550208
- 0231550200
- OCLC:
- 1085578070
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