{"id":1687,"date":"2013-03-21T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2013-03-19T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T01:48:13","slug":"ever-mo-yan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1687","title":{"rendered":"Ever Mo Yan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?tag=mo-yan\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn2.spiegel.de\/images\/image-466055-galleryV9-ntfn.jpg?resize=510%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"338\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><em>Spiegel Online<\/em> interviews Mo Yan, who says &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/zeitgeist\/nobel-literature-prize-laureate-mo-yan-answers-his-critics-a-885630.html\" target=\"_blank\">I am guilty<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Guardian<\/em> writes that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/feb\/28\/mo-yan-dismisses-nobel-critics\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Yan dismisses &#8216;envious&#8217; Nobel critics<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mo Yan writes that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/necksbetrim.tumblr.com\/post\/44144633656\/mo-yan-good-literature-should-let-readers-discover\" target=\"_blank\">Good Literature Should Let Readers Discover Themselves<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/content\/765811.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Mo reason for culture promotion<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Complete Review<\/em> notices Mo Yan has more than one agent with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.complete-review.com\/saloon\/archive\/201303a.htm#gf9\" target=\"_blank\">full rights to represent him in copyright talks and any other negotiations on cooperation.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sabina Knight on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/bookreview\/mo-yans-delicate-balancing-act-8162?page=show\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Yan&#8217;s Delicate Balancing Act<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Martin Winter blogs about <a href=\"http:\/\/erguotou.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/04\/mo-yan-%E8%8E%AB%E8%A8%80-and-liao-yiwu-%E5%BB%96%E4%BA%A6%E6%AD%A6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Yan and Liao Yiwu\u00a0\u5ed6\u4ea6\u6b66<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chad Post on a book that <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> make the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=6222\" target=\"_blank\">Best Translated Book Award <\/a>long list.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Laughlin on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadcastforfriends.com\/video\/13516553\">Mo Yan&#8217;s Nobel Prize for Literature<\/a>: Resetting Chinese Literature&#8221; (a development of his article on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinafile.com\/what-mo-yan%E2%80%99s-detractors-get-wrong\" target=\"_blank\">What Mo Yan&#8217;s Detractors Get Wrong<\/a>&#8220;).<\/p>\n<p>Perry Link at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, 28 March: &#8220;A Tale of Two Nobels: Liu Xiaobo &amp; Mo Yan&#8221; (in Chinese). <a href=\"http:\/\/nems.law.cuhk.edu.hk\/online-registration\/?event_id=360\" target=\"_blank\">Click to register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/popupchinese.com\/lessons\/sinica\/mo-yan-and-the-nobel-prize\" target=\"_blank\">Popup Chinese Sinica Podcast <\/a>Alice Xin Liu, David Moser, and Brendan O&#8217;Kane talk to Kaiser Kuo about Mo Yan&#8217;s writing &amp; reception, including a quick analysis of the three anecdotes from his literary acceptance speech. Click the link or listen here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"audioplayer_container\"><span style=\"display:block;padding:5px;border:1px solid #dddddd;background:#f8f8f8\" id=\"audioplayer_1\">Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&amp;promoid=BIOW\" title=\"Download Adobe Flash Player\">here<\/a>. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">AudioPlayer.embed(\"audioplayer_1\", {soundFile:\"aHR0cDovL3BvcHVwY2hpbmVzZS5jb20vZGF0YS8xMjU4L3NpbmljYS1tby15YW4tYW5kLXRoZS1ub2JlbC1wcml6ZS5tcDM\"});<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiegel Online interviews Mo Yan, who says &#8220;I am guilty.&#8221; The Guardian writes that &#8220;Mo Yan dismisses &#8216;envious&#8217; Nobel critics.&#8221; Mo Yan writes that &#8220;Good Literature Should Let Readers Discover Themselves&#8221; One &#8220;Mo reason for culture promotion&#8221; The Complete Review &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1687\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[182,990,297,989,991,518,189,554,774],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-rd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1311,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1311","url_meta":{"origin":1687,"position":0},"title":"A Westerner\u2019s Reflection on Mo Yan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"At the \"International Conference on Chinese Literature in Global Contexts\" at Beijing Normal University \u5317\u5e08\u5927, World Literature Today editor Robert Con Davis-Undiano read his \"Westerner's Reflection on Mo Yan [\u83ab\u8a00].\" With Mo Yan winning the Nobel, WLT has posted it online. 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So the last Mo Yan update from this blog will be a link to this interview with Liao Yiwu\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"Canadian author Alice Munro (PETER MUHLY\/AFP\/Getty Images)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/files\/2013\/10\/88678447.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/files\/2013\/10\/88678447.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/files\/2013\/10\/88678447.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/worldviews\/files\/2013\/10\/88678447.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1501,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1501","url_meta":{"origin":1687,"position":3},"title":"Still More Mo Yan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"At ChinaFile Shelley Wing Chan discusses her enthusiasm over Mo Yan, which led to her book A Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan. 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