旅美作家严歌苓在近几年的小说创作中,逐渐将重心由移民题材转移到有关中国历史与当下的书写。其于2016年公开出版的长篇小说《舞男》,以20世纪的上海为故事背景,运用多重叙事策略,暗合传统价值观念,表现出动荡历史进程中亘古不变的人性力量。 Yan Geling, a writer in the United States, has gradually shifted its focus from immigration themes to writing about Chinese history and present-day writing in his novels in recent years. In 2016, the novel “Dancing Man”, published in 2016, used the 20th century Shanghai as the story background, used multiple narrative strategies and concerted traditional values ​​to show the everlasting humanity force in the turbulent historical process.