This book analyzes Mo Yan’s writings as well as other scholarly interpretations of his writings. When Mo Yan from China was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the term «hallucinatory realism» was invented to describe his storytelling as a «merging» of folk tales, history, and the contemporary. The author stakes out a Marxist approach to theorizing the class ideology that underwrites what Mo Yan says he «knows» of the «nebulous terrain» where one supposedly experiences moments of «trans...

This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch.Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer Rebellion (1898–1901)—an anti-imperialist struggle waged by North China’s farmers and craftsmen in opposition to Western influence. Against a broad historical canvas, the novel centers on the i...

In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary." The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer's work and influence, featuring essays from scholars in a range of disciplines, from both China and the United States. Its introduction, twelve ...

**A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF THE YEARWASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK“Mo Yan’s voice will find it’s way into the heart of the American reader, just as Kundera and García Márquez have.” —Amy Tan author of The Joy Luck ClubFrom the Nobel-prize winning author of Red Sorghum and one China’s most revered writers, a novel exploring the One-Child Policy**Before the Cultural Revolution, Gugu, narrator Tadpole’s feisty aunt, is a resp...

When Special Investigator Ding Gou’er arrives in the fictional province of Liquorland, the air reeks of coal and liquor. Tasked with investigating rumours that local officials are practising cannibalism, he transforms from observer to participant in the bacchanalian rounds of lavish banquets and intemperate drinking. Unable to keep up with Diamond Jin, an official with a notorious capacity for holding his drink, Ding falls into an intoxicated haze until the arrival of a new dish at the ban...

During China's collectivist era in the later 1950s, a rural work team set to repair a river floodgate receives a new labour recruit: Hei-hai, a skinny, sorry, silent boy. Assigned to pump the bellows at the worksite forge, Hei-hai proves indifferent to pain or suffering, but eerily sensitive to the beauties of the natural world. As the worksite becomes embroiled in human jealousy and strife, Hei-hai's eyes remain trained on a world that only he can see, searching for wonders that only he u...

It was said that he was cold and proud despite not being close to a woman. Yet, he had fallen in love with her.The two who should have parted ways began to tangle with each other. She also wanted to flee, but she couldn't escape from his grasp no matter how hard she tried. Was this fate or true love?

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...

After being hurt by a cruel man, she was rescued by him on a heavy rainy night.In order to save her mother's life from illness, she sounded abject and eager to please, but never got good results. Even if she loses her dignity or she is scarred, she still decided to save her mother. In the end, someone was willing to help her. The person who helped her gave her all the love, including helping her to restore her dignity.☆About the Author☆Mo Yan, a new online novelist, is good at writing urba...