Mo Yan Has Just Become The First Chinese Citizen To Win The Nobel Prize In...
Mo Yan, 57, has made history by becoming the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Announced mere minutes ago, Mo will become the 109th recipient of the prestigious prize....
View ArticleReactions Various And Sundry To Mo Yan’s Controversial Nobel Prize Win
The blitz is on. Eighteen hours after Mo Yan’s historic win of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a shedload of articles have appeared analyzing, praising, criticizing, and explaining what it all means to...
View ArticleMo Yan Speaks Out For Jailed Dissident And Fellow Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo
A lot of people have expressed their desire to see newly crowned Nobel laureate Mo Yan speak out against the more grievous shortcomings of the Chinese government. The extent to which he leverages his...
View ArticleNetEase Compares Global Times Chief Editor Hu Xijin To Grass That Rolls With...
We love ourselves a good zinger. Via China Digital Times’s “NetEase News Calls Out Global Times,” we’re introduced to the image of the fleabane, which CDT explains is “known as qiangtoucao (墙头草) or...
View ArticleWhat Will Mo Yan Wear At The Nobel Prize Award Ceremony?
Mo Yan is scheduled to leave tomorrow for Stockholm, according to South China Morning Post, where on Friday he’ll deliver his speech to the Swedish Academy and the following Monday will attend the...
View ArticleIn Honor Of Mo Yan, Chinese Students In Stockholm Organize “Red Sorghum”...
Chinese students in Stockholm participated in a “Red Sorghum” flashmob at Galleria Department Store yesterday to “express joy and pride at Mo Yan winning the Nobel prize.” One-hundred-eight people...
View ArticleProbably The Best Piece On Mo Yan Yet: Anna Sun’s Essay On His “Diseased...
As Mo Yan prepares to speak in Stockholm — in less than 10 minutes, at 12:30 am local time, barring delays — the piece you should read if you haven’t already is Kenyon College assistant professor Anna...
View ArticleMo Yan’s Nobel Prize In Literature Lecture
Full speech on Youku after the jump. Mo Yan gave his traditional Nobel lecture, “Storytellers,” about 10 hours ago at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm. He was introduced by Kjell Espmark, member...
View ArticleMo Yan’s Nobel Banquet Speech: “When (Literature) Does Not Exist, Our Lives...
I’ll leave the parsing to others, but here’s the body of Mo Yan’s meticulously arranged speech at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony last night: I am well aware that there are many writers in the world...
View ArticleMan Streaks Outside Nobel Banquet Hall In Stockholm To Protest Mo Yan...
UPDATE, 3:43 pm: Please see this update. In Stockholm on Monday, on the night of the Nobel banquet, a man dashed butt-naked through the cold and snow, his ebullient battle cry resonating across the...
View ArticleThat Streaker At The Nobel Banquet Was Artist Meng Huang, Accompanied By...
That last video we just put up of a man streaking outside the Nobel Banquet Hall in Stockholm wasn’t just some prankster after a laugh, or a drunk man who’d lost his wits. It was part of a coordinated...
View ArticleMo Yan’s Three Nobel Lecture Stories: A Close Reading By A.E. Clark
Richard Burger of The Peking Duck has rightly directed our attention to A.E. Clark’s recent essay on Mo Yan, “Mo Yan’s Middle Finger,” in which Clark analyzes the three stories Mo told in his Nobel...
View ArticleMo Yan Grants First Interview Since Winning Nobel Prize, Rebukes Ai Weiwei,...
Since accepting the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, the controversial Mo Yan has turned down every formal interview request from every publication in the world. But he finally broke his...
View ArticleLook Who’s In Town For The 12th CPPCC National Committee, Which Began Yesterday
Hey look, a Mo Yan sighting. It looks like the floodgates have opened as far as interviews, too. It wasn’t long ago that his first interview since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature was published...
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