ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315288291/a1eedcaa-57fc-4fca-9a39-2ae5e50fda7a/content/fig20_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Wang Anyi (b. 1954) is one of the most spontaneous and sensitive writers I interviewed. Daughter of well-known Shanghai woman writer and literary bureaucrat Ru Zhijuan (b. 1925), Wang Anyi grew up in a cultured and well-protected environment. Unlike many zhiqing writers who went to the countryside "to build socialism," she went to Wuhe County, Anhui Province, in 1970, as she frankly said, out of adolescent rebelliousness and without ambition to transform the countryside. In her denunciation of the Rustication Movement, Wang Anyi is more decisive and thorough than many other writers in this book. Many writers condemn the Rustication Movement while saying that without that experience, they would not have become writers. But Wang Anyi negates it totally by saying that if that was the way to become a writer, she would rather not be one.
