{"id":1286,"date":"2012-10-16T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T02:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2012-10-15T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T03:05:34","slug":"more-views-on-mo-yan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"More Views on Mo Yan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Nobel Prize-winner for Literature Mo Yan \u83ab\u8a00<\/a> has, for obvious reasons, become a hot topic of discussion. I’ve assembled some of the analysis that’s recently appeared online in various forms.<\/p>\n

First, my highschool classmate & translator from Swedish B J Epstein <\/a>has written about the Nobel from an outsider’s perspective, bringing a discussion she and I had recently into her report.<\/p>\n

Next, poet & translator Eleanor Goodman <\/a>talks about the different reactions to the Nobel from within China and without.<\/p>\n

Then, translator Bruce Humes<\/a> covers the other side of the issue, demonstrating how “references deemed unbecoming to China\u2019s image are often ‘airbrushed'” from a published Chinese translation of the NYTimes<\/em> report of Mo Yan’s prize. And Brendan O’Kane asks “Is Mo Yan a Stooge for the Chinese Government?<\/a>” (Brendan sez the short answer is ‘no’).<\/p>\n

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Next, Sabina Knight (Smith College) on Mo Yan’s Nobel (from NPR<\/a>): <\/p>\n

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