流逝：英文版

　　In this collection are seven stories by　Wang An yi， the most popular Chinese woman writer of Shanghai. The stories tell much about the quality of life in China in the 1980s and the different senses of value of the writers generation. The writer has captured not only the flavor of the Chinese earth ，but alapsed moment in time. Her stories serve as a good place to start reading contemporary Chine literature for foreign readers who are interested in China.

　　Wang Anyi，Born in 1954 in Fujian Province， the daughter of the noted woman author Ru Zhijuan， Wang Any i represents the generation of Chinese writers whose formal education was disrupted by the "cultural revolution" and who were sent to work in the countryside. In 1978 she returned to Shanghai to work as an editor of the magazine Childhood. She has won several awards in national short-story competitions. Her story， "The Destination"， won anational award as one of the best short stories of 1982， "Lapse of Time" and "Xiaobao Village" won national awards for the best novellas， and her full-length novel Everlasting Regret won the Fifth Mao Dun Literary Prize.