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1StevenTX
Nov 30, 2012, 9:39 am

Please use this thread for information about Mo Yan and his cultural environment, links to external sites, and any general discussion of his writings.

Book reviews should be posted on the individual book threads. Please avoid plot spoilers in this thread.

2rebeccanyc
Dec 8, 2012, 11:22 am

I'm adding two links Rise posted in the Club Read Interesting Articles thread:

Mo Yan's Nobel lecture.

A Kenyon Review article about Mo Yan's "diseased" use of language.

3kidzdoc
Edited: Dec 8, 2012, 10:05 pm

Another article about Mo Yan, from the most recent issue of The New York Review of Books:

Does This Writer Deserve the Nobel Prize?

4wandering_star
Dec 8, 2012, 9:57 pm

I found this an interesting blogpost about the political environment that Mo Yan is working in:

http://www.rectified.name/2012/10/15/is-mo-yan-a-stooge-for-the-chinese-governme...

5wandering_star
Dec 11, 2012, 9:36 am

From the New Yorker - a Mo Yan short story and a short interview with his translator.

6BALE
Dec 12, 2012, 11:21 pm

I just finished Mo Yan's, Big Breasts and Wide Hips. An amazing work! Has any one else read it? Any thoughts? Thanks to all who contributed articles. It enhances the Mo Yan experience.

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