Author: Mo Yan. Origin: The Republic of Wine, chapter 3, page. 25 “People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.”― Mo … Read more
Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2016‘One of China’s greatest living authors and fiercest satirists’ Guardian In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour … Read more
A panoramic vision of the Chinese literary landscape across the twentieth century. Award-winning literary scholar and poet Yunte Huang here gathers together an intimate and … Read more
In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Yan, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice’s tale of depravity, violence, … Read more
The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and most Eastern and Western historical narratives.
