Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004

Annie Wang gave a talk and signed her new book at the Xi'an Book City.

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004

People.com.cn interviewed Annie Wang and her editor at the Beijing Publishing House.  For more information, please check http://www.peopledaily.ac.cn/GB/14738/14759/21866/2362141.html and

http://www.peopledaily.ac.cn/GB/14738/14761/25876/2361387.html

Sunday, Feb. 22, 2004

Annie Wang signed her new book From Mainland to Mainstream at the Xinhua Bookstore

of Wangfujing, Beijing.

Friday, Feb. 20, 2004

Annie Wang was invited by 163.com as a guest to chat with online friends. For more information, check http://culture.163.com/editor/040219/040219_82774.html.

Jan. 2004

LILI's French version is published in France. 

Annie Wang's Chinese Book From Mainland to Mainstream is published by The Beijing Publishing Group.

Sept. 2003

Guest Speaker.  "Getting Serious with People" at the Hong Kong Convention  and Exhibition Center, sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong, PeopleSoft, and the South China Morning Post.

Topic: China's Young Minds

Wednesday, May 7, 2003

Keynote speaker at Prudential Financial, Scottsdale, AZ. Topic:

Asian Pacific Islanders: A Tribute to Many Cultures.

Thursday, March 6, 2003

Guest speaker at the diversity event of USB Paine Webber.

March 4, 2003

Keynote speaker for the Women's History Month at Mary Washington  College

Feb. 23, 2003

Tea with Annie Wang at Union City Library

Sept. 2002

Annie Wang starts a weekly column, She Talks, at the most popular Chinese newspaper in

North America.

Summer 2002

Annie Wang's Book Signing and Reading in the Bay Area:

June 2002

Due to the popularity of Annie Wang's column People's Republic of Desire in South China Morning Post, the column is moved to page one, Wednesday's feature section.

March 2002

LILI is published in Germany by Blessing.

Feb. 28, 2002

Annie Wang's novella The Proper Daughter is published in USAToday.com.  Through a love affair between an Asian woman who graduated from Harvard Business School and a West-African immigrant,  Annie Wang examines the topic of cultural expectation and prejudice.

Feb. 1 to Feb. 4, 2002

Annie Wang's family is in Shanghai and Nanjing to meet with the readers of China's Bronte Sisters, written by Mrs. Wang.  Twenty-eight media outlets, including Shanghai TV, Shanghai Evening News, and Liberation Daily covered the event.  China's Bronte Sisters was the No.4 bestseller in the Beijing Book Exposition in January 2002.  The book has broken China City Publishing House's sales record since its founding. 

Jan. 30, 2002

The FCC Hong Kong is organizing a Club Luncheon with Annie Wang to celebrate the publication of LILI in the UK at 12:30 PM  Annie Wang will be giving a twenty-minute reading.

Jan. 24, 2002

Annie Wang's bestselling book Subukenai is featured on the front page of the prestigious newspaper Literature Press. Shanghai journalist Lu Mei writes, "Subukenai is a hit and becomes especially hot in the young hip crowd and the intellectual circle...Annie Wang uses her sharp eyes to observe the lives of the returnees and the new rich; Subukenai is a book that evokes serious thoughts.  She depicts a floating world of the new generation and their city life... parties, cars, Ivy League school graduates, disco, avant-garde music, beauty salons...Both talk about fashion, desire, and alternative lifestyles; other pretty woman authors cannot compete at the same level as Annie. She mocks, she laughs, she attacks, she is outrageous and ponderous.  Behind her sarcastic and comic tone, we sense her deep concern for humanity and society...Unlike other female authors who were born in the 1970s, Western-educated Annie graduated from the prestigious University of California at Berkeley and holds a much more sophisticated world view...She doesn't show off the material wealth or high fashion in her life.  Instead, she thinks they are unbearably shallow.. "

The author's preclude, and the excerpt about the CEOs of .com from Subukenai are printed on Page Two.

Jan. 19 to 20. 2002

Annie Wang's family signed China's Bronte Sisters in Beijing Xinhua Bookstore (Wang Fujing) and Beijing Book City. The location of the Wang Fujing Xinhua Bookstore used to be the site of the Wang family's first Beijing apartment.  Many readers praise that the book written by Annie Wang's mother is not only about mother-daughter relationships and how to raise kids, but it is also a book about the nobility of the human soul and China's modern history. It's a book meant for all the Chinese intellectuals who live a dignified life after all the hardship they have endured.

Jan.  25,  2002

Lili's hardback version is released by Pan Macmillan in the Great Britain.

Media Coverage

1) Daily Telegraph  2) The Times 3) Sunday Independent 4) Sunday Telegraph 5) The Scotsman 6) Face 7) BBC 8) B  9) Evening Leader 10) Company Magazine 11) New Straits Times (Malaysia) 12) Marie Claire 13) Big Issue 14) Lincolnshire Today 15) Times Literary Supplement 16) the Mirror  17) Sunday Herald 18) News Letter (Northern Ireland)  19) the Glasgow and Edinburgh List 20) Blackpool Gazette 21)Cambridge Evening News 22)  Guardian 23) Western Daily Press (Bristol) 23) Gloucester Citizen 24) Western Morning News 25) News and Star 26) The Herald  27) Broadway Ham and High 28) Lancashire Evening Post (Preston)  29) South London Press 30) Book Girl

Jan. 16, 2002

Annie Wang and her book People's Republic of Desire are featured in Hong Kong's Ming Pao.

Jan. 14 2002

Annie Wang and her book People's Republic of Desire are featured in Yazhouzhoukan (Asia Week) in Hong Kong.

Jan. 9, 2002

The first book/CD of Annie Wang's mother,  China's Bronte Sisters--How Mother Helps Her Daughters To Achieve Their Goals, is released, and the press conference takes place at the annual Beijing Book Exposition.  The first printing is 50,000 copies. Eighty media attended the press conference. 

Jan. 2002

Annie Wang and her best-selling book Subukenai are featured in the January issue of Elle (China), written by their chief editor Wendy Wu.

Dec. 2001

Annie Wang's book Subukenai is on the best-selling list in Shanghai.

Dec. 9, 2001

Annie Wang starts her weekly "sex and desire" column for Sunday Morning Post.

Dec.  8, 2001

LILI is among the top 10  best-selling fiction books in New Delhi this week.  Half a Life by V. S. NAIPAUL ranks No. 1. Fury by SALMAN RUSHDIE ranks No. 2.  LILI ranks No. 6.

Dec. 2001

Annie Wang's Chinese novel The People's Republic of Desire is being published by Hong Kong Cosmos Books.

Nov. 12- 19th 2001

Annie Wang had a press conference, four talks at major universities in Shanghai, and two book signings at Shanghai Book City and Sanlian Books in Shanghai for her latest Chinese book Subukenai.  200 copies of Subukenai were sold in Shanghai Book City during the one-hour book signing.  Annie Wang is also featured in Family, a bi-weekly magazine that has a circulation of 3.5 million, and more than forty media reused the article.

Oct 22, 2001

A live interview with Annie Wang at RTHK, "Lunch Beat," starts at 2:00 PM To listen to the program, visit http://www.rthk.org.hk/.

Annie Wang will give a talk about LILI at a cocktail party in the Fringe Club, Hong Kong, organized by  The Women in Publishing Society, South China Morning Post and Dymocks Bookseller, Inc at 6:30 PM  For more information, please contact: matthews@dymocks.com.hk

Sept.  22, 2001

Pan Macmillan UK published an export edition of LILI

Sept. 14-18, 2001

Annie Wang's new Chinese book, The Unbearable Shallowness (Su Bu Ke Nai), is being published by Shanghai Culture Press and promoted at the National Book Festival in Kunming, China.  Su-bu-kei-nai is deemed as a Chinese version of Sex and the City. It's the first novel about China's returnees, a satire about China's new sexual revolution and rush to materialism.

Sept. 10, 2001

Annie Wang gave a talk about LILI, English writing, Chinese culture, and Chinese women at the Asian and Pacific Rim Studies at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, arranged by Professor Robert Gamer, vice president of the Edgar Snow Foundation, and professor Jane Chang at the Foreign Languages Department.

August 2001

Lili is chosen as Buyers' Favorite at Stacey Booksellers in San Francisco.

Summer 2001

Lili is selected as the Staff's Pick at Cody's Bookstore at Berkeley.

July and August

Lili is on the Staff Pick's list of Concord Bookshop in MA.

Aug.  17th, 2001

Annie Wang signs and reads Lili at Readers' Books in Sonoma at 7:30 PM  For more information, go to http://www.readersbooks.com/

August 5th, 2001

Annie Wang appears on "Sunday Salon" with senior interviewer Larry Bensky from 10: 00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (PST) on KPFA (94.1 FM), talking about her book Lili and China's counterculture.

To listen to it live, visit http://www.kpfa.org/