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BITTER BAMBOO.
China, experts agree, is the nation of the future; its immense population, its acrobatic blend of totalitarian controls and booming free enterprise, and the commercial and intellectual success its emigrants have enjoyed in nations from Malaysia to the United States all augur impending global dominance. In literature, however, the Chinese mainland, as far as Western ears go, is pretty quiet. The one Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize (if we don't count Pearl Buck) was an expatriate Parisian, Gao Xingian. Bookstores, the Times reports, are bustling, but nearly half the purchases consist of textbooks and half the translations are of American books. Meanwhile, American ...
- THE LITERARY WORLD OF MO YAN.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today WANG, DAVID DER-WEI June 22, 2000 700+ words
...the old in order to bring about the new. Mo Yan is a name that stands out amid this wave...unrestrained erotic imagery, propelled Mo Yan's writing into a new creative vista...despite the acclaim by critics and readers, Mo Yan was not content merely to rehash themes...
- MO YAN Through Western Eyes.(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today INGE, M. THOMAS June 22, 2000 700+ words
Mo Yan promises to step onto the larger stage of...seek cultural roots" gained momentum, Mo Yan has created a singular and compelling fictional...Flaubert, and James Joyce are among them -- Mo Yan has created a body of work that appeals to...
- FROM FATHERLAND TO MOTHERLAND: ON MO YAN'S RED SORGHUM & BIG BREASTS AND FULL...
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today CHAN, SHELLEY W. June 22, 2000 700+ words
In 1987, Mo Yan published Honggaoliang jiazu (Eng. Red...and living, as well as good and bad. Mo Yan reconstructs history by subverting the...Communist camp, is always victorious. Mo Yan, however, writes about history in a different...
- Mo Yan. Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Wong, Timothy C. March 22, 2002 700+ words
...75:1, pp. 4-29), his countryman Mo Yan had been regularly pointed to as one of...rendered into English by Howard Goldblatt--Mo Yan had already drawn notice outside his native...named) turns out to be more subdued, Mo Yan's narrative descriptions are generally...
- Mo Yan. Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Twitchell-Wass, Jeffrey September 22, 2002 700+ words
...preface to this selection of stories, Mo Yan, one of China's most remarkable contemporary...the Great Leap Forward. There is about Mo Yan's writing the sense of an explosive need...elemental, more or less savage natures. Mo Yan's most characteristic writing is both...
- Mo Yan. Big Breasts and Wide Hips.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Fu, Binbin September 1, 2005 700+ words
Mo Yan. Big Breasts and Wide Hips. Howard Goldblatt...HOWARD GOLDBLATT'S recent translation of Mo Yan, once again expertly done, marks the latest...now, readers who have become familiar with Mo Yan through Goldblatt are perhaps also attuned...
- THE "SATURNICON" FORBIDDEN FOOD OF MO YAN.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today GOLDBLATT, HOWARD June 22, 2000 700+ words
...how, I will turn my attention to why novelists write about cannibalism, ending in a discussion of how the Chinese novelist Mo Yan has dealt with the subject. Grotesque Gourmandise. There are, following Key Ray Chong's classification, two types of cannibalism...
- The Republic of Wine.(Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Kinkley, Jeffrey C. June 22, 2000 700+ words
Mo Yan. The Republic of Wine. Howard Goldblatt...1-55970-531-0. Many critics think Mo Yan (b. 1955; real name, Guan Moye) the...the novel (a key to its interpretation, Mo Yan agrees) was cut from mainland editions...