Worldwide Locations

Worldwide Locations

Keyword: chinese literature

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)
Arts

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 | Comments

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)
Arts

Nobel Prize-winner Mo Yan may have made some disappointing choices in public life, argues Charles Laughlin, but his fiction wasn't written to serve a political agenda.

December 12th by Charles Laughlin | Comments

Book Excerpt: 'Northern Girls' by Sheng Keyi

L:
Arts

In this excerpt from her debut novel, one of China's leading new novelists puts a human face on the phenomenon of mass migration. In-person appearance at Asia Society New York on Tuesday, November 27.

November 21st by Asia Society | Comments
Yahoo News Next #Iran nuclear talks get a date http://t.co/iPHkC94hsd 6 other world powers to attend
The New York Times Bangladeshi-American Writer Killed by Machete-Wielding Assailants http://t.co/Fea4gbeMJu
Washington Post The unlikely life of Afghanistan’s first female taxi driver http://t.co/7XjAdGdRcQ http://t.co/uld1Kf8TqG
AFP South Asia Poverty sends #Nepal's 'freed' farmworkers back to #slavery - by @akannampilly http://t.co/7P90UP0Mbw. #Video at https://t.co/g0YkJYsxRx

Recent Comments