Gathering of the Week: Stupid Sessions
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
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Yang Hengjun: History’s Most Solemn “Two Sessions”
Once an official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yang Hengjun is a commentator and novelist...
Mo Yan Stirs Controversy With Support for President Xi
When Chinese novelist Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012, controversy erupted—while...
Yao Ming Worries About Obesity in China
NBA basketball player turned Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference delegate Yao Ming...
Mo Yan and the Gray Areas of Self-Expression
In a new special issue, Guernica Magazine focuses on gray areas of freedom of expression. For...
China: US Has No Right to Comment on Activists’ Fate
With the fifth anniversary of Liu Xiaobo’s most recent arrest, his wife Liu Xia suffering...
Of Literature and Laureates, Translations and Trends
At The Los Angeles Review of Books, Jeffrey Wasserstrom talked to translator Brendan O’Kane...
“Five Star Billionaire” And Other Must-Read Books
Tash Aw, a writer born in Taipei who grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to England, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel, “Five Star Billionaire,” a fictional self-help book for social climbers...
Publishers Try to Sell Chinese Fiction in Translation
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson looks at the prospects for translated Chinese works in America. Currently, the flow into China of books translated from English and other foreign languages is much larger than the...
Ai Weiwei & Mo Yan on Publicity and Responsibility
In an interview and a recent speech, respectively, artist Ai Weiwei and Nobel-winning author Mo Yan expressed sharply different attitudes towards public exposure and social and political responsibility. From Bernhard Zand,...
10 Coolest Novels about Modern China
Peter from China Whisper recommends 10 novels that have shaped popular culture in modern China. From Weijing Zhu at the World of Chinese:1) The Republic of Wine by Mo YanThe Republic of Wine: A Novel takes place in a fictional...
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan: “I Am Guilty”
In his first interview since receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in December, Mo Yan talks to Der Spiegel’s Bernhard Zand about his work, his political views, and his critics. SPIEGEL: Unspeakable things happen in...
“Intellectuals Haven’t Taken Enough Responsibility”
Ian Buruma recently wrote that demanding outspoken political protest from Nobel-winning writer Mo Yan is like “trying to pluck feathers from a frog.” Author Yan Lianke, though, argues that Chinese...
Masters of Subservience: China’s ‘Bureaucracy Lit’
At The New York Times, NPR’s Louisa Lim examines China’s popular ‘bureaucracy lit’, focusing on former official Wang Xiaofang’s Civil Servant’s Notebook. The genre has recently attracted increased...
Politics and the Chinese Language
On ChinaFile, Perry Link responds to a number of recent articles offering varying opinions about the choice of Mo Yan as the Nobel Laureate in Literature. In particular, Link responds directly to an essay by Charles Laughlin, in...
A Good Year for Chinese-English Translation
At Paper Republic, Nicky Harman celebrates a good year for Chinese-to-English translations, listing twenty books published—mostly—in 2012. OK, I’ve cheated a bit – three of the publications below are poetry, and two others come...
Mo Yan and the Politics of Language
After being questioned over his close relationship with the Chinese government, the Nobel-winning author Mo Yan is now facing another round of criticism for the quality of his writing. Anna Sun at The Kenyon Review writes that...
Mo Yan: Photos from Stockholm
Southern Weekend photojournalist Wang Yishu is in Stockholm to document Mo Yan’s receipt of the...
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