Chinese Literature

6 Dec 2012

China's Nobel literature winner, Mo Yan, headed to Sweden yesterday to collect his award, but he walks a delicate line with the authorities and is expected to avoid mentioning his jailed fellow...

China: 'This Generation' by Han Han

28 Oct 2012

Han Han is such an outsized personality in China, with millions of Chinese hanging on to his every word, that it is easy to forget he is still virtually unknown in the West.

Writers should be true to their convictions

22 Oct 2012

I still remember that afternoon more than 20 years ago when I first read Red Sorghum. I was bowled over.

Separating fact from fiction about Mo Yan

21 Oct 2012

A widely circulated Sina Weibo post, sardonically linking Nobel laureate Mo Yan to two more controversial Chinese celebrities, perhaps best illustrated the public's conflicted feelings about the...

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Materialism a threat to China's literary culture, fears Wang Anyi

21 Oct 2012

With more than 60 literary works under her belt, Shanghai-based author Wang Anyi is regarded as one of the most prolific and influential writers in contemporary China.

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Mo's works in line with Nobel vision

As expected, Beijing celebrated Mo Yan's award of the Nobel Prize for literature as a national triumph.

'Wishful thinking' to link Mo Yan's Nobel prize with China's rise

The awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature to Mo Yan is a great recognition of Chinese literary talent, but for the government to say it symbolises China's "soft power" and rising...

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Mo Yan's Nobel means recognition for China at last, but critics air doubts

Mo Yan's Nobel Prize for literature was hailed by the public as a sign that contemporary Chinese literature has finally won global recognition, even as several cultural critics questioned the...

Mo Yan: a dark satirist who tells the 'big stories of China'

Mo Yan has come far from Gaomi, where he was born to a farming family in the early days of communist rule, but his writing has never left.

LITERATURE

Media frenzy over author Mo Yan's chance to win Nobel Prize

Critically acclaimed for his work and faulted for his tolerance of government censors, Chinese author Mo Yan has suddenly found himself at the centre of a media frenzy over his prospects of...

Pauline Chen reworks a classic of Chinese literature

In this modern adaptation of the 18th-century Chinese classic Dream of the Red Chamber, life for the aristocratic characters is described as akin to an "elaborate web": exquisite but also a trap...