Fu Ping is a keenly observed portrait of the lives of lower-class women in Shanghai in the early years of the People's Republic of China. Wang Anyi, one of contemporary China's most acclaimed authors, explores the daily lives of migrants from rural areas and other people on the margins of urban life.

One of contemporary China's most acclaimed authors explores the daily lives of migrants from rural areas and other people on the margins of urban life, providing a keenly observed portrait of the lives of lower-class women in Shanghai in the early years of the People's Republic of China.

Fu Ping is an enjoyable story, a novel using one young woman's fate to evoke life in the Shanghai of long ago.