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FupingAnyi Wang

Fuping

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"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…

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Editions

4 editions · 2 languages
  • Other · English · 2019
    Columbia University Press · 9780231550208
  • Other · English · 2019
    Columbia University Press · 296 pages · 9780231193221
  • Other · English · 2019
    Columbia University Press · 296 pages · 9780231193238
  • Other · Chinese · 2001
    Mai tian chu ban · 220 pages · 9789574693474
Language and languagesChina, fictionFiction, womenWomen internal migrantsFiction