Woman and City: a Conversation with Wang Anyi

Colombia University's Weatherhead East Asian Institute hosts a conversation with acclaimed Shanghai author Wang Anyi about her literary work.

Registration required.

One of China's most critically-acclaimed writers, Shanghai-based Wang Anyi has published twelve novels including The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Weatherhead Books on Asia/Columbia University Press), The Age of Enlightenment, Heavenly Fragrance, and Anonymous. She is the winner of many prestigious literary prizes, including the Lu Xun Prize, "The Writer of the Year" of the Chinese Literary Media, and The Dream of the Red Chamber Prize offered in Hong Kong. Her work was nominated in 2011 for the Man Booker International Prize. She is a professor at Fudan University.

Moderated by Lydia H. Liu
Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

Introduction by Eugenia Lean
Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Associate Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University

Co-sponsored by the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University; the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; the Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College; the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at Columbia University; the C.V. Starr East Asian Library; Columbia Law School Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Literary Translation at Columbia, Columbia School of the Arts; and Columbia University Press