{"id":2252,"date":"2013-10-17T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2013-10-14T22:23:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T14:23:56","slug":"after-this-no-more-mo-yan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2252","title":{"rendered":"After this, No More Mo Yan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Canadian<\/a><\/p>\n

Now that “Dissident writer Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday morning for her fiction critical of the Canadian regime<\/a>,” the year of Mo Yan’s Nobel has ended.<\/p>\n

So the last Mo Yan update from this blog will be a link to this interview with Liao Yiwu<\/a> \u5ed6\u4ea6\u6b66, who, upon being asked to compare himself with Mo Yan, who, ahem, “received the Nobel Peace in Literature<\/i>,” said:<\/p>\n

I don’t want to be compared to someone like Mo Yan. He is an official of the Communist Party. Whenever he makes a public appearance, he is representing the dictatorship. So my criticism is natural … Of course there is a happy medium; there are authors who criticize the realities of Chinese society without being political. But they aren’t on the side of the dictatorship. Mo Yan overdoes it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that “Dissident writer Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature Thursday morning for her fiction critical of the Canadian regime,” the year of Mo Yan’s Nobel has ended. So the last Mo Yan update from this blog … Continue reading →<\/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":[1238,518,189],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Ak","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1687,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1687","url_meta":{"origin":2252,"position":0},"title":"Ever Mo Yan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Spiegel Online interviews Mo Yan, who says \"I am guilty.\" The Guardian writes that \"Mo Yan dismisses 'envious' Nobel critics.\" Mo Yan writes that \"Good Literature Should Let Readers Discover Themselves\" One \"Mo reason for culture promotion\" The Complete Review notices Mo Yan has more than one agent with \"full\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn2.spiegel.de\/images\/image-466055-galleryV9-ntfn.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1316,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1316","url_meta":{"origin":2252,"position":1},"title":"Mo Yan and the World: Another Roundup","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Mo Yan \u83ab\u8a00, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature, continues to be a topic of conversation. 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