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The heroine Zhang Daling in "Thirty Chapters of Running Water" is the descendant of the daughter of an ordinary small business owner in Shanghai. Zhang Daling's mother was a spoiled young lady when she was a girl. Zhang Daling's father has always accommodated her and protected her. They continue to live their lives and have children based on a kind of inertia. When Zhang Daling was born, her mother could no longer feed her, so she was sent to the countryside to raise her. When she was a little older, Zhang Daling was taken back to Shanghai to go to school. After graduating from middle school, she went to work in the village of Jingangzui for eight years before returning to the city. This book reflects a woman's life journey from infancy to adulthood.

The book "Love Stories from the Hair Salon" contains 14 short stories: "The Little Bride", "Anecdotes about the Baltic Sea", "The Low Place in the Clouds", "Corner", "Aristocratic Family", "Traveling by Bus", "Love Stories from the Hair Salon", "Sister Walk", "Sheep", "Ping Pong Room", "Head of the Family", "Daoxiang House", "Train 51/52", "Linhuaiguan", etc.

"The Wedding Banquet" aims to include the essence of Wang Anyi's creations, display short stories and prose works of classic significance, and create a high-quality book list suitable for collection. The novels in "The Wedding Banquet" mostly use ordinary little people as protagonists to express their extraordinary experiences and emotions in ordinary lives. "Understanding" and "love" are Wang Anyi's creative purposes. In terms of artistic expression, her early novels were more emotionally expressive, while her recent creations tend to be calm and meticulous. From Wang Anyi's works, we can generally feel a kind of generous love. She gives the characters in the story "heroicness" and expresses the beauty and kindness of the characters.

In the 1940s, wars raged, times changed, and the family declined, leaving only Chen Shuyu living alone in the old house. Old houses that have fallen into disrepair have become empty and dilapidated. The old house is a large Qing Dynasty building with a large and complex layout and exquisite stone and wood carvings. Repairing it is a heavy burden. Without skilled craftsmen and sufficient funds, it would be impossible to start. Chen Shuyu cannot afford it and wants to hand over the precious historical relic of the old house to the state because it has no independent property rights. The fate of the old house was once again on hold, and things went round and round and returned to the starting point. Chen Shuyu's personal history is the epitome of millions of Shanghai industrialists and merchants, and is also a footnote to the vicissitudes of Shanghai, a prosperous city, for more than half a century. Together with Chen Shuyu, the "Four Little Kais in the West Wing" each went through a bumpy life path. They are a grain of sand under the impact of the waves of the great era, helpless and helpless. They are also the smallest factors in the big world. Even if they experience impact and collapse, they will eventually return to their original state.

"Documentary and Fiction" is undoubtedly Wang Anyi's highly autobiographical work. It is a city man's self-explanation and self-tracing. As an "autobiographical" novel, "Documentary and Fiction" is not only a fiction of personal experience, but also a documentary presentation of fictional behavior. That is, it not only tells us what she experienced, but also tells us how to "narrate" it.

"The Age of Enlightenment" is a novel describing the spiritual growth of a generation. In the mid-1960s, the "Cultural Revolution" broke out suddenly, throwing young people living in a completely different world into one place. The heroes and heroines who came out of the high-ranking cadres' apartments and the market, with youthful enthusiasm, sensitivity, restlessness and confusion, tenaciously and recklessly find reasons for their ideals and lives. It can be said that this is a history of the spiritual growth of the "elder generation". The author has written a period of history that people who have come from that era never need to think of and will never forget.

It has been more than thirty years since the Mao Dun Literature Award was established, and nearly forty writers have participated in the award-winning works. Most of these writers have been working in the literary world for many years. In addition to novels, they have also made outstanding achievements in the fields of "short" genres such as novellas, short stories and essays. This time, from an artistic perspective, we selected the first batch of classic works of novellas, short stories and essays by some award-winning writers, compiled them into a collection of about 200,000 words, and assembled them into this set of "Short Classics of Mao Dun Literature Award Winning Writers". "Wheatfield Story" is a collection of Wang Anyi's works. The main works selected in this book include "Bengbu", "Wheatfield Story", "Sisters' Journey", etc.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Shen family of Shanghai County built "Tianxiang Garden". The second generation Shen Kehai married Xiaosi, and they were deeply in love. By chance, he took the Min family as a concubine, and they have been entangled in grudges ever since. Min is the daughter of a Suzhou weaver. She has embroidery skills, which she brought into the Shen family. Together with Xiaosi, they created "Tianxiangyuan Embroidery". Xizhao, the wife of A Qian, the third generation of the Shen family, even used needlework, calligraphy and painting to embroider, which is unique in the world. Huilan, the daughter of Ah Qian's brother Ah Fang, married into the Zhang family and became a widow after giving birth to a son. The Shen family was in decline, and the Zhang family was also poor. Xi Zhao, Huilan and others used "Tianxiang Garden Embroidery" to support their family income.

By an accident and a strange combination of circumstances, the protagonist of the novel was taken away by the kidnappers. The kidnappers abandoned him in a mountain col in order to eliminate traces. He struggled to live here alone and spent the entire autumn and winter. In the spring, he accidentally caused a wildfire. After escaping, he was rescued and was sent to a nursing home in a mountain town. Unexpectedly, he met the kidnapper at the time. He also looked for an opportunity to go to the county welfare home and found his family in Shanghai. But when he was about to return home, he fell into the river and followed the river to the sea.

A woman's forty years of affection and love are written with a delicate and gorgeous pen in a sad and touching way, intertwined with the changes of Shanghai, a metropolis, from the 1940s to the 1990s. Wang Anyi's seemingly plain but humorous and cold writing style, in which he relishes the small and trivial details of life, shows the people and the city in the changing times, and is known as the "modern Shanghai epic". This book won the first World Chinese Literature Award, and in 2000, it won the Mao Dun Literary Award, the most honorable award in my country's literary world.

Chinese prose has a long history. Thousands of years of prose creation, whether lyrical, expressing aspirations, describing scenes, or expressing feelings about people... All reflect the changes of the times and people's thoughts and emotions. These fine traditions of Chinese prose have not only been fully inherited in the new literature since the 20th century, but have also continued to innovate and develop. Wang Anyi is a unique and rich existence in contemporary Chinese literature. She always writes about her life experience, spiritual adventure and life yearning with a tenacious attitude. Wang Anyi's prose is delicate and gentle, and is widely cited. Even the characters and stories in foreign literary works are closely related to the lives and thoughts of each of us. Reading these beautiful and timeless words is in itself a dialogue with our hearts...

"Heroes Everywhere" tells the story of Han Yanlai, a Shanghai boy living in the urban-rural fringe area. From a new perspective, it describes the struggle and fate of the urban marginalized people at the bottom of society. Han Yanlai, a child from an ordinary farmer's family in the suburbs of Shanghai, encountered an unexpected incident on Christmas night, which pulled him from his normal life as a taxi driver into a completely different situation.

Xiu Guomei and Zhang Jianshe, a pair of young people, met and fell in love with the tide of reform and opening up, started a family and started a business, and became rich through hard work. From the two-person world of a floating family to a prosperous company chain, it has been smooth sailing but also a little bumpy. With support from village chiefs, loans from banks, mutual help among brothers, and unity between husband and wife, with their minds and hands, and their kind and tolerant nature, they consciously or unconsciously kept pace with the times, and even became pioneers at certain points. At the same time, we also witnessed the sediment washed away by the tide and the bay branch undergoing the torrent of reform. This novel is not long, but there is a lot of space beyond the text. The historical process of the reform and opening up for more than 40 years is flashed back one by one through the detailed days of Xiu and Zhang's family, making it real and tangible.

"Song of Everlasting Regret" takes Wang Qiyao's "splendid smoke" legendary life as the main performance content, linking the vicissitudes of the times with the eccentricities of personal destiny. In the late 1940s, Shanghai was in turmoil and did not know that the giant wheel of the times was about to crush its old dream of prosperity. Wang Qiyao, a female middle school student born in a Shanghai alley, was accidentally selected as "Miss Shanghai", and thus began her life full of legends and infinite variables. After Shanghai was liberated, Wang Qiyao became an ordinary citizen. On the surface, her life was dull, but her inner emotional tide never subsided. In a difficult life and spiritual entanglement, she gave birth to her daughter Weiwei and raised her to adulthood. In the 1980s, Wang Qiyao, who had already known her destiny, could not escape the fate and died.

In the 1940s, Wang Qiyao, who was still a middle school student, was selected as "Miss Shanghai" and began her ill-fated life. Being Director Li's "canary" transformed her from a girl into a real woman. Shanghai was liberated and Wang Qiyao became an ordinary citizen. On the surface, the days are dull, but the emotional tide inside never subsides. In a difficult life and spiritual entanglement, she gave birth to her daughter Weiwei and raised her to adulthood. In the 1980s, Wang Qiyao, who was already knowing her destiny, could not escape fate. The boyfriend of her daughter's classmate killed Wang Qiyao for money.

"Song of Everlasting Regret" takes Wang Qiyao's "splendid smoke" legendary life as the main performance content, linking the vicissitudes of the times with the eccentricities of personal destiny. In the late 1940s, Shanghai was in turmoil and did not know that the giant wheel of the times was about to crush its old dream of prosperity. Wang Qiyao, a female middle school student born in a Shanghai alley, was accidentally selected as "Miss Shanghai", and thus began her life full of legends and infinite variables. After Shanghai was liberated, Wang Qiyao became an ordinary citizen. On the surface, her life was dull, but her inner emotional tide never subsided. In a difficult life and spiritual entanglement, she gave birth to her daughter Weiwei and raised her to adulthood. In the 1980s, Wang Qiyao, who had already known her destiny, could not escape the fate and died.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Shen family in Shanghai County built "Tianxiang Garden". Shen Kehai married Xiaosi, and accidentally took the Min family as his concubine, resulting in entangled grudges. Min is the daughter of a Suzhou weaver. She has embroidery skills, which she brought into the Shen family, and together with Xiaosi, they created "Tianxiangyuan Embroidery". The Shen family was in decline, and her niece Huilan married into an ordinary family and later became a widow. Xizhao, Huilan and others used embroidery to support their household needs. Huilan even set up curtains to teach the art, making "Tianxiang Garden Embroidery" popular all over the world.

"Six Lectures on Novel": compiled from Wang Anyi's six public lectures. Where did your interest in writing originate? How to build a novel world? Why focus on genre fiction? What makes a good novel? Can novel writing be taught and learned? As a novelist and educator, Wang Anyi candidly shares her experience in class, leading readers to explore the passage between novels and life, and experience the joy of reading and creation. "Cambridge Starry Sky": It contains four long essays by Wang Anyi, including "Destiny and No Destiny", "Gentle Capital" and "Musical Life". It is a reading essay with a unique style. From Henry James, Alice Munro, and Sebald to "A Dream of Red Mansions", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" and "Love in a Fallen City", the author quotes from many sources, breaks the boundaries between works and different disciplines, grasps the undercurrents and contexts, and presents unique personal experiences through the surface of words and life, and touches on a deeper existence.

Wang Anyi is a unique and rich existence in contemporary Chinese literature. She always writes about her life experience, spiritual adventure and life yearning with a tenacious attitude. This book selects various representative works of Wang Anyi, including the novellas "Little Baozhuang", "Love in a Small Town", "Uncle's Story", "I Love Bill", "Anecdotes of the Cultural Revolution", "The Era of Seclusion"; short stories "Recruitment", "Drunkard", "The Match", "Black Alley"; essays "Starry Sky in Cambridge", "Gorgeous Family" and other chapters, comprehensively reflecting Wang Anyi's creative achievements.

"Song of Everlasting Regret", a woman's forty years of love and love, is written with a delicate and gorgeous pen in a sad and moving way, intertwined with the changes of Shanghai, a metropolis, from the 1940s to the 1990s. The women living in the lanes of Shanghai have built up countless ideals, disillusionments, restlessness and resentment. Their pursuit of love and love, their successes and failures, are unfolding in front of our eyes. Wang Anyi's seemingly plain but humorous and cold writing style, in which he relishes the small and trivial details of life, shows the people and the city in the changing times, and is known as the "modern Shanghai epic".

"Thirty Chapters of Flowing Water" uses the method of analyzing human psychological activities to reflect the life course of a woman from infancy to adulthood. Not only can we see the trajectory of a woman's mind, but we can also see that specific period of history. The author attempts to change the mode of structuring novels with plots and life details, and incorporates a touch of romanticism into the realistic expression techniques.

Wang Anyi used her usual steady, meticulous and strict writing style to break it apart and crush it into pieces, telling the story of the extraordinary growth process of the third generation of young people in detail. The novel describes the spiritual shock experienced by several children of cadres and citizens in Shanghai in the mid-1960s when they were suddenly hit by a violent storm, and their subsequent thoughts on revolution, ideals, life, and society, as well as their process from simple and naive boyhood to sensitive and rational youth. Wang Anyi's characterization is from the inside out, full of philosophical meaning and rationality, which makes her novels have a higher level of artistic authenticity and deeper typicality.

On the other side of the ocean, in Flushing, New York, celebrity chef Chen Cheng explained the art of gourmet food in detail with guests from his hometown. Chen Cheng has been cooking since he was a child. His uncle was his uncle. Later, he became a master and learned a lot about the art of cooking. His personal experience is also strange. He has always lived with his aunt in Shanghai since he was a child. He has little memory of his parents and sister's home in the Northeast. He studied art as a young man and received almost no school education. After the country opened, she and her sister immigrated one after another. The sister studied and was successful in her studies, while he used his skills to settle down and make a living. Their father, who was a widower, was also taken in to live with them. Life on the other side is certainly peaceful, but there are long shadows behind everyone. Looking back from time to time, I am filled with emotion.

In the 1940s, Wang Qiyao, who was still a middle school student, was selected as "Miss Shanghai" and began her ill-fated life. Being Director Li's "canary" transformed her from a girl into a real woman. Shanghai was liberated and Wang Qiyao became an ordinary citizen. On the surface, the days are dull, but the emotional tide inside never subsides. In a difficult life and spiritual entanglement, she gave birth to her daughter Weiwei and raised her to adulthood. In the 1980s, Wang Qiyao, who was already knowing her destiny, could not escape fate. The boyfriend of her daughter's classmate killed Wang Qiyao for money. This book won the fifth Mao Dun Literature Award.

A woman's forty years of affection and love, a city's forty years of stability and change. The winning work of the 5th Mao Dun Literary Award, Asia Weekly's top 100 Chinese novels of the 20th century, and the most influential Chinese work in the 1990s. "Song of Everlasting Regret" tells the life story of a Shanghai woman named Wang Qiyao. From her debut as a "Shanghai socialite" to her embarrassing ending when she was murdered, she seemed to be on a lively dance floor. Under the urging of the gorgeous dance steps, she briefly met and separated from the people around her. She struggled to hold on to the last support but lost her life, and the attempt was in vain. What always accompanies the changes in her destiny are the changes in the city of Shanghai. The span of forty years is enough for a city to undergo earth-shaking changes. It seems that the alleys cannot accommodate this behemoth, but its tentacles have already sneaked into every corner of Wang Qiyao's life, tightly binding her.

This book uses the growth experiences of several eleven or twelve-year-old girls as a guide to describe the conscious and unconscious turbulent changes that have occurred in rural areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the tide of market economy. Yang Baobao, a little girl from the countryside, had no choice but to leave her old house in the countryside and come to the town because her parents were away on business. The little girl saw and experienced many strange people and things, and she grew up unknowingly. The novel describes the girl's psychological activities, emotional entanglements, and growth process in a delicate and precise manner, and is deeply touching.

This book is the latest collection of self-selected essays by the famous writer Wang Anyi. It selects essays written from January 2017 to December 2018, including travel notes, book reviews, prefaces and postscripts, and interviews. It is divided into four series, with a total of 24 works and more than 120,000 words. The latest one was written on December 24, 2018 (unpublished). The book begins with a set of essays of more than 30,000 words written by the writer during his stay in New York, USA, covering all aspects of nature, politics, diplomacy, culture, living habits, customs, etc. What he saw, heard, and thought is a concentrated display of the writer's thoughts and emotions. The other main content is the writer's impressions of reading the latest foreign novels; interactive Q&A with the questioner around the new novel "The Work Examination" and the reprinted "Mother and Daughter Traveling America"; writing about his father, his elders, and his comrades' old memories... The writer's subtle insights into the world and world affairs are revealed between the lines. His perceptual observations and rational thinking are unique and profound.

"Taozhi Yaoyao" narrates the half-life self-esteem and forbearance of a woman named Yu Xiaoqiu in the Shanghai market. Her youthful beauty is considered a dazzling symbol of restlessness in the eyes of others. And her life experience is also a topic of gossip among countless people in the market. Under Wang Anyi's almost detailed and cumbersome realistic approach, an unusual girl in a Shanghai alley unexpectedly walks out on a difficult but pure life path; and the world of Shanghai's small citizens is no longer the background of the story, but becomes a flesh-and-blood life itself.