Writer sheds light on lives of urban women
China DailyWriter Ji Xiaoyi, whose pen name is Liao Jing, has just published a new novel that delves into the feelings of young city dwellers. However, Ji Xiaoyi, who operates under the pen name of Liao Jing, stands for the uniqueness and independence of individual female writers and calls for a wider vision and more subtle observation toward young city dwellers from various social backgrounds. Her latest novel, Wan Hun, is the story of a woman, Huang Wansi, in her early 30s, who has achieved nothing major working as a midlevel human resource worker in Beijing and has just tied the knot with a man that's suitable in every aspect, so that society perceives it as a "good marriage". Xi Shan has noticed that many recent books centering around metropolitan, or urban, themes have delved more deeply into issues such as women's lives, an anxiety toward children's education and the growing generation gap. In Ji's novel, with no obvious shortcomings that Huang can identify in her new husband, Yang Hao, she begins to doubt why a socially well-adjusted man with a considerable income, a good education and an affluent family would fall in love with, and marry, a woman like her－a rural migrant who is embarrassed about her family and origins.
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Writer sheds light on lives of urban women
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Writer sheds light on lives of urban women
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Writer sheds light on lives of urban women
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