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Politics and the Chinese Language: What Mo Yan's Defenders Get Wrong

The 2012 Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan of China reads during a public reading of his works at Aula Magna, at Stockholm University, on December 9, 2012. (Fredrik Sandberg/AFP/Getty Images)

The New York Review of Books' Perry Link re-enters the energetic debate over the awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to Chinese novelist Mo Yan.

December 27th by Perry Link

Why Critics of Chinese Nobel Prize-Winner Mo Yan Are Just Plain Wrong

Chinese writer and 2012 Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mo Yan poses for photographers before giving a press conference in Stockholm on December 6, 2012. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images)

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The latest Nobel Laureate in Literature didn't write his books to serve a political agenda, argues Charles Laughlin.

December 12th by Charles Laughlin

Book Excerpt: 'Northern Girls' by Sheng Keyi

L: "Northern Girls" by Sheng Keyi (Penguin Group Australia, 2012). R: The author (Feng Tang).

Arts

One of China's leading new novelists puts a human face on the phenomenon of mass migration.

November 21st by Asia Society

Keyword: chinese literature

Politics and the Chinese Language: What Mo Yan's Defenders Get Wrong

Why Critics of Chinese Nobel Prize-Winner Mo Yan Are Just Plain Wrong

Book Excerpt: 'Northern Girls' by Sheng Keyi

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