Chen Sihe, assistant dean of the School of Liberal Arts at Fudan University in Shanghai, is very familiar with the work of Wang Anyi. Says Chen, "Wang Anyi doesn't look at sex through a moral prism. She looks at it as a life force, and from that perspective affirms its worth. Thanks to her, sex has now received fair treatment in Chinese literature."
相當熟悉王安憶作品的大陸復旦大學人文學院副院長陳思和曾指出：「王安憶不從道德去看『性』，而是從生命本體價值上去肯定『性』，使得性在中國文學中得到公平的評價。」