Wang Anyi’s Fiction: Self-perception, Sexual Awakening and Social Morality

Wang AnyiWang anyi is an accomplished post-Mao writer who has drawn attention to gender-related issues such as female sexualitySexualityfemale sexuality and subjectivitySubjectivity. She was born in Nanjing and grew up in Shanghai in a family of intellectuals. Her mother, Ru ZhijuanRu zhijuan (1925–1998), was a veteran writer whose short stories have a sensitivity rarely found in the socialist literature of the 1950s and 1960s