Could China Have Its “First” Nobel Winner?
China Central Television (CCTV) will report from tomorrow’s award ceremony for the Nobel Prize in literature for the first time. The station has posted this excited message to its Tencent Weibo:
CCTVnewsroom: First Time CCTV Invited to Nobel Literature Prize Ceremony: Signal for Mo Yan? The winner of ...
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The party-state media will undoubtedly crow that this is China’s “first” Nobel prize in literature, just as books published in the PRC under CCP supervision leave out any mention of the 2000 Nobel prize in literature which went to the official non-person Gao Xingjian, who is on a CCP/PRC blacklist. It is quite a joke how those Party-approved books on Nobel literary prizes jump from the 1999 prize to the 2001 prize, hoping that the reader will simply assume that there was no 2000 prize or that it is a forbidden point to mention.
Can you please let me know that apart from Liu Xiaobo and Mo Yan, third chinese who got Nobel Prize? Is he Gao Xingjian? Thanks.
In response to my earlier question: Can you please let me know that apart from Liu Xiaobo and Mo Yan, third chinese who got Nobel Prize? Is he Gao Xingjian? Thanks.
Since all of these trio’s (Gao Xingjian, Liu Xiaobo and Mo Yan) place of birth (Shandong, Changchun, Ganzhou respectively) and ethnicity (Han Chinese) can be the reasons, you are mentioning about Gao, Liu and Mo in the category of Peace and literature for Nobel prize.
Otherwise, you must have mentioned Mo Yan as the fourth Chinese including the 14th Dalai Lama for Nobel Prize in the category of Peace and literature. As far as the Taiwanese and Chinese-American winners are concerned, they all got Nobel Prize in the category of Physics and Chemistry.