About author wang lili:

The writer Wang Lili has lived in countryside Henan, Shenzhen, Melbourne, and now Shanghai, she works as a migrant in big cities like ShenZhen, Shanghai for many years;

Her three published books, My Tears wont fall (2001), You Are Far Away (2002), and Sunshine On The Body (2006), published by top publishers Such as Shanghai People publishing House, ChangJiang Arts and Literature publishing house...in China, have given here a reputation for granting a voice to no voice people such as migrants, sex-traders, spinsters, lost souls ....

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About author wang lili:

The writer Wang Lili has lived in countryside Henan, Shenzhen, Melbourne, and now Shanghai, she works as a migrant in big cities like ShenZhen, Shanghai for many years;

Her three published books, My Tears wont fall (2001), You Are Far Away (2002), and Sunshine On The Body (2006), published by top publishers Such as Shanghai People publishing House, ChangJiang Arts and Literature publishing house...in China, have given here a reputation for granting a voice to no voice people such as migrants, sex-traders, spinsters, lost souls ....

She is profiled by numerous local and international media, such as CBC TV, Shanghai TV...;

International media such as Washington Post, AFP, Xinhua News...attend her third book press conference entitled Sunshine on the body Published by Shanghai People Publishing House sponsored by Glamour Bar in 2006;

she gives presentation in top Universities, libraries, international literature Festival... home and abroad;

She is invited to be a visiting scholar or visiting writer in top Universities internationally;

She has publishes a lot of impressive, well-broadcasted, grand-discussed... cover stories or feature stories about Politicians, Business people, intellectuals ... for major Chinese media.

She is teaching expats Chinese as well as Chinese culture such as Art of war... to help expats to understand China from an insider perspective with an international background.

She is writing about expats in China in series for local Chinese media from a Chinese perspective with an international background, She has already published the following expats interviewees' stories as a cover story or feature story which includes Mayors, Consul Generals, Presidents, GMs...entrepreneurs... intellectuals...house husband...kids...in Laborer Daily from shanghai and YangCheng Evening News from GuangZhou.



Wang lili fiction and non-fiction Summaries

My tears won’t fall: Memoir of a Chinese Migrant Worker

A simple country girl, Wang Lili, failed to pass the college entrance examination in the battle for success. She was exhausted of studying. She wanted to return home to rest. She wanted to return to the countryside to live the non-competitive, simple country life but her family wanted her to become a stand-out among others.
After a fierce beating and losing all feelings for her family, she decided to go to the big city to make her own livelihood with her “sisters” from the same village. On the road to the city as her companions chatted constantly, everyone had the dream of a beautiful future. Only Wang Lili was depressed. She felt in her bones that the road away was too difficult.
After trudging on the long, difficult road they finally arrived in Shenzhen. Wang Lili discovered to her surprise that Shenzhen was very different from her hometown. Life in her hometown was tranquil. Day-after-day, year-after-year life was the same. But here, the city was thriving. It was changing every second.
In her hometown, women hide their true nature and hide their beauty. Here, women stand proudly, their chests thrust forward with make-up like newly opened flowers, striding through the streets to the welcoming eyes of men. Wang Lili’s companions seemed like a fresh breath of air. But this city paid them no regard.
After surrendering their identity cards, they secured their first jobs in a Taiwan company stitching umbrellas. In the factory, pay was based on piecework. At best, one could earn only just over 100 yuan. Food and lodging was free. They worked more than 12 hours a day. They remained frozen in the same pose during their shifts.
On the first day of work, Wang Lili’s hands and buttocks had blood blisters. Moreover, she found the managers didn’t even view them as human. After seven days, Wang Lili decided to test fate. She pretended to have diarrhea and appeared as pathetic as possible.
With a smooth tongue, at last she connived to get half a day off. During the half day, she luckily found her second job as a security guard. She returned to the factory to quit the job but the factory refused to accept her resignation. Wang Lili argued and raised a commotion but the factory wouldn’t let her go. At last, she escaped. After fleeing, she regained her identity card and belongings with the help of police. But the factory refused to pay her salary because she only worked for seven days.
In the second job, Wang Lili’s male co-workers tried to sexually harass her. She steadfastly refused their advances. This caused relations with them to be strained. To survive, Wang Lili tried to anticipate the needs of her boss but the result was more sexual harassment.
Wang Lili’s third job was as a low-level clerk, a job her former colleagues never thought she would have. But after she won the job, she wasn’t satisfied. She become more and more infatuated with becoming a standout among her peers. She gritted her teeth to climb to the top.
This novel describes Wang Lili and her “sisters” saving money and sending it home and their feelings of nervousness, joy, excitement and pride. It describes the miserable experience of marking the Mid-Autumn Festival and Lunar New Year as migrant workers, missing their homes and families.
It describes the clash between Shenzhen and traditional culture. It describes the change in cultural psychology caused by being a migrant worker. It describes the cultural conflict between her and her father. It describes fear and unsafe feelings in a life with no guarantees as a migrant worker.
It describes feeling lonely and helpless in a strange place. It describes the confusion of being young. It describes eagerness and fear towards the opposite sex. It describes the conflicting feelings of gratitude and resentment of fellow townspeople.
It describes the conflicts and contradictions between dormitory mates and colleagues. It describes the difficult experience of having one’s rights violated by the boss and the fight to protect one’s rights.
It describes Shenzhen’s rapid, breakneck economic development and the mismatch with government’s failed efforts to effectively manage the city and the problems it brings.
…The novel also brings to light the stories of all descriptions of her “sisters”, co-workers and fellow townspeople. The novel illustrates the revolutionary changes in society after economic reforms and portrays the fate of people on the lower rungs of society in the process of urbanization. This book has been called the best novel of its kind by China’s most important literary critics.



You are Far Away

In the wave of modernization sweeping China, many foreigners and locals alike came to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone –China's experimental area for restructuring her economy, in order to pursue their dreams. Under the Chinese Government's benefits policy and the efforts of the many hopefuls that surged there, Shenzhen grew explosively from a small fishing village into a modern city.
Accompanying the explosive growth of the city, the influx of overseas cultures, especially from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe, America, forcibly invaded and quickly became very much the mainstream culture. In addition, the interaction and conflict between various cultural practices brought by locals from other regions, the native Shenzhen culture and foreign cultures, formed a 'melting pot' of cultures and a distinctive Shenzhen culture emerged. In the highly materialistic society and hybrid culture of Shenzhen, the protagonist Miss Lee who ventures out from the mainland to Shenzhen in order to work, sinks into the depths of loneliness, just as this book's title "You are Far Away" is suggestive of the concept that people can be physically close but mentally distant.

This book mainly describes the many emotional failures that she has experienced in her youth, against the backdrop of rapid modernization and the 'melting pot' of cultures, demonstrating the unbridgeable gap between male and female perceptions of sex and love. At the same time, it depicts her inner fears and desires towards physical and emotional relationships with the opposite sex, as well as her struggles in dealing with conflicts between the two. Also, it captures her awakening awareness of her feminine self as well as of feminism, and
the resulting clashes between the former and the latter.

Apart from Miss Lee, this book also describes the complicated emotional experiences characteristic of Shenzhen life, of her roommates, including the jobless white collar worker Xiao Liao, the prostitute, the mistress, the nanny and the female boss. It shows how materialism and conflicting culture can influence one's emotional life.



Sunshine on the Body

All around the young man, people made money, lives changed, and signs of modernity sprang up overnight.
The world was vibrant with activity. But these changes left the man unmoved and alienated.
He felt no enthusiasm for life.
One day, a sleeping beauty appeared to him in a dream. She was so real to him, he fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. But after living twelve unhappy lives, the dreaming woman had become disenchanted with the real world of humans. She wanted only to live in the world of animals and never to awake.
As she told the man her story, he tried to wake her up with his love. But, as she finished each of her twelve stories, one part of the man's body was dismembered. Her stories transferred agony to him.
While suffering the misery of dismemberment, the man noticed the sun shining on his body. He felt the power of love returning to his soul and the reason for life returning to his heart.



Mother Merry Single Life

It describes the single life of Mother Merry turned into a writer in man's world----during her struggle for dream, she experiences many sexually harassment so that she became very disappointed with the opposite sex. But when God praises her for her contribution to human being, what she elects gift is one night of Wedding Festivities.

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About author wang lili:

The writer Wang Lili has lived in countryside Henan, Shenzhen, Melbourne, and now Shanghai, she works as a migrant in big cities like ShenZhen, Shanghai for many years;

Her three published books, My Tears wont fall (2001), You Are Far Away (2002), and Sunshine On The Body (2006), published by top publishers Such as Shanghai People publishing House, ChangJiang Arts and Literature publishing house...in China, have given here a reputation for granting a voice to no voice people such as migrants, sex-traders, spinsters, lost souls ....

She is profiled by numerous local and international media, such as CBC TV, Shanghai TV...;

International media such as Washington Post, AFP, Xinhua News...attend her third book press conference entitled Sunshine on the body Published by Shanghai People Publishing House sponsored by Glamour Bar in 2006;

she gives presentation in top Universities, libraries, international literature Festival... home and abroad;

She is invited to be a visiting scholar or visiting writer in top Universities internationally;

She has publishes a lot of impressive, well-broadcasted, grand-discussed... cover stories or feature stories about Politicians, Business people, intellectuals ... for major Chinese media.

She is teaching expats Chinese as well as Chinese culture such as Art of war... to help expats to understand China from an insider perspective with an international background.

She is writing about expats in China in series for local Chinese media from a Chinese perspective with an international background, She has already published the following expats interviewees' stories as a cover story or feature story which includes Mayors, Consul Generals, Presidents, GMs...entrepreneurs... intellectuals...house husband...kids...in Laborer Daily from shanghai and YangCheng Evening News from GuangZhou.



Wang lili fiction and non-fiction Summaries

My tears won’t fall: Memoir of a Chinese Migrant Worker

A simple country girl, Wang Lili, failed to pass the college entrance examination in the battle for success. She was exhausted of studying. She wanted to return home to rest. She wanted to return to the countryside to live the non-competitive, simple country life but her family wanted her to become a stand-out among others.
After a fierce beating and losing all feelings for her family, she decided to go to the big city to make her own livelihood with her “sisters” from the same village. On the road to the city as her companions chatted constantly, everyone had the dream of a beautiful future. Only Wang Lili was depressed. She felt in her bones that the road away was too difficult.
After trudging on the long, difficult road they finally arrived in Shenzhen. Wang Lili discovered to her surprise that Shenzhen was very different from her hometown. Life in her hometown was tranquil. Day-after-day, year-after-year life was the same. But here, the city was thriving. It was changing every second.
In her hometown, women hide their true nature and hide their beauty. Here, women stand proudly, their chests thrust forward with make-up like newly opened flowers, striding through the streets to the welcoming eyes of men. Wang Lili’s companions seemed like a fresh breath of air. But this city paid them no regard.
After surrendering their identity cards, they secured their first jobs in a Taiwan company stitching umbrellas. In the factory, pay was based on piecework. At best, one could earn only just over 100 yuan. Food and lodging was free. They worked more than 12 hours a day. They remained frozen in the same pose during their shifts.
On the first day of work, Wang Lili’s hands and buttocks had blood blisters. Moreover, she found the managers didn’t even view them as human. After seven days, Wang Lili decided to test fate. She pretended to have diarrhea and appeared as pathetic as possible.
With a smooth tongue, at last she connived to get half a day off. During the half day, she luckily found her second job as a security guard. She returned to the factory to quit the job but the factory refused to accept her resignation. Wang Lili argued and raised a commotion but the factory wouldn’t let her go. At last, she escaped. After fleeing, she regained her identity card and belongings with the help of police. But the factory refused to pay her salary because she only worked for seven days.
In the second job, Wang Lili’s male co-workers tried to sexually harass her. She steadfastly refused their advances. This caused relations with them to be strained. To survive, Wang Lili tried to anticipate the needs of her boss but the result was more sexual harassment.
Wang Lili’s third job was as a low-level clerk, a job her former colleagues never thought she would have. But after she won the job, she wasn’t satisfied. She become more and more infatuated with becoming a standout among her peers. She gritted her teeth to climb to the top.
This novel describes Wang Lili and her “sisters” saving money and sending it home and their feelings of nervousness, joy, excitement and pride. It describes the miserable experience of marking the Mid-Autumn Festival and Lunar New Year as migrant workers, missing their homes and families.
It describes the clash between Shenzhen and traditional culture. It describes the change in cultural psychology caused by being a migrant worker. It describes the cultural conflict between her and her father. It describes fear and unsafe feelings in a life with no guarantees as a migrant worker.
It describes feeling lonely and helpless in a strange place. It describes the confusion of being young. It describes eagerness and fear towards the opposite sex. It describes the conflicting feelings of gratitude and resentment of fellow townspeople.
It describes the conflicts and contradictions between dormitory mates and colleagues. It describes the difficult experience of having one’s rights violated by the boss and the fight to protect one’s rights.
It describes Shenzhen’s rapid, breakneck economic development and the mismatch with government’s failed efforts to effectively manage the city and the problems it brings.
…The novel also brings to light the stories of all descriptions of her “sisters”, co-workers and fellow townspeople. The novel illustrates the revolutionary changes in society after economic reforms and portrays the fate of people on the lower rungs of society in the process of urbanization. This book has been called the best novel of its kind by China’s most important literary critics.



You are Far Away

In the wave of modernization sweeping China, many foreigners and locals alike came to the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone –China's experimental area for restructuring her economy, in order to pursue their dreams. Under the Chinese Government's benefits policy and the efforts of the many hopefuls that surged there, Shenzhen grew explosively from a small fishing village into a modern city.
Accompanying the explosive growth of the city, the influx of overseas cultures, especially from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe, America, forcibly invaded and quickly became very much the mainstream culture. In addition, the interaction and conflict between various cultural practices brought by locals from other regions, the native Shenzhen culture and foreign cultures, formed a 'melting pot' of cultures and a distinctive Shenzhen culture emerged. In the highly materialistic society and hybrid culture of Shenzhen, the protagonist Miss Lee who ventures out from the mainland to Shenzhen in order to work, sinks into the depths of loneliness, just as this book's title "You are Far Away" is suggestive of the concept that people can be physically close but mentally distant.

This book mainly describes the many emotional failures that she has experienced in her youth, against the backdrop of rapid modernization and the 'melting pot' of cultures, demonstrating the unbridgeable gap between male and female perceptions of sex and love. At the same time, it depicts her inner fears and desires towards physical and emotional relationships with the opposite sex, as well as her struggles in dealing with conflicts between the two. Also, it captures her awakening awareness of her feminine self as well as of feminism, and
the resulting clashes between the former and the latter.

Apart from Miss Lee, this book also describes the complicated emotional experiences characteristic of Shenzhen life, of her roommates, including the jobless white collar worker Xiao Liao, the prostitute, the mistress, the nanny and the female boss. It shows how materialism and conflicting culture can influence one's emotional life.



Sunshine on the Body

All around the young man, people made money, lives changed, and signs of modernity sprang up overnight.
The world was vibrant with activity. But these changes left the man unmoved and alienated.
He felt no enthusiasm for life.
One day, a sleeping beauty appeared to him in a dream. She was so real to him, he fell in love with her and wanted to marry her. But after living twelve unhappy lives, the dreaming woman had become disenchanted with the real world of humans. She wanted only to live in the world of animals and never to awake.
As she told the man her story, he tried to wake her up with his love. But, as she finished each of her twelve stories, one part of the man's body was dismembered. Her stories transferred agony to him.
While suffering the misery of dismemberment, the man noticed the sun shining on his body. He felt the power of love returning to his soul and the reason for life returning to his heart.



Mother Merry Single Life

It describes the single life of Mother Merry turned into a writer in man's world----during her struggle for dream, she experiences many sexually harassment so that she became very disappointed with the opposite sex. But when God praises her for her contribution to human being, what she elects gift is one night of Wedding Festivities.

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