For some Chinese readers, the feminism of Sally Rooney’s novels is too wishy-washy
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskIn the five years since the publication in English of “Conversations with Friends”, Ms Rooney’s first book, she has become an international sensation. Her three novels to date have been translated into scores of languages; two have been. In China she has sold 150,000 books in translation, says Peng Lun, her publisher: a high number for a relatively new overseas author.
“As someone who is from a small town, I can relate to the experience of moving to study in a big city,” says Qian Yang, a reader in her 20s in the north-eastern Liaoning province. Like Ms Rooney’s protagonists, she felt “the excitement of a new place, curiosity about people from different classes and awkwardness in social settings”.
feels repulsed by the consumption and exploitation it seems to imply, dwelling on the labour that went into the products and their environmental consequences. Hayami, the blogger, says she had a similar epiphany in regard to Shanghai’s late-night shops and restaurants. This “super-convenient lifestyle”, she realised, was made possible by “a mass army of service and manufacturing workers”.
The economic background of these stories has something in common with the situation in China too. Following decades of rapid economic growth, lots of Chinese millennials have been able to move up the social ladder. More recently, though, the government’s stringent zero-covid policy, sluggish growth and authoritarian crackdowns have curtailed some opportunities and led to a bump in unemployment.
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