{"id":8616,"date":"2019-11-01T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/mo-yan-and-his-books\/"},"modified":"2019-11-01T18:13:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T18:13:52","slug":"mo-yan-and-his-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/mo-yan-and-his-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Mo Yan and his Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mo Yan<br \/>  Born in 1955, the novelist\/short story writer&rsquo;s real name is Guan Moye (\u7ba1\u8c1f\u4e1a), better known by his pen name Mo Yan. He is a celebrated co<em><\/em>ntemporary Chinese literary figure. His works are the most translated among all Chinese co<em><\/em>ntemporary literature as well as the most pirated. Drew from Mo&rsquo;s hometown and childhood memories, his style is a mixture of fantasy and reality, historical and social perspectives with heavy influence from Chinese folk culture. His most well-known novel is probably &ldquo;Red Sorghum: A Novel of China (\u7ea2\u9ad8\u7cb1\u5bb6\u65cf H&oacute;ngg\u0101oliang Ji\u0101z&uacute;),&rdquo; later adapted in 1987 into the movie &ldquo;Red Sorghum (\u7ea2\u9ad8\u7cb1 H&oacute;ngg\u0101oliang)&rdquo; by Director Zhang Yimou.<\/p>\n<p>  Whether he likes it or not, Mo has now become one of the most famous people in China and in the world for that matter. He has always been a celebrated writer. In fact, he was just awarded the Maodun Literature Award (\u8305\u76fe\u6587\u5b66\u5956 M&aacute;od&ugrave;n W&eacute;nxu&eacute; Ji\u01ceng) last year, one of the highest ho<em><\/em>nors in co<em><\/em>ntemporary Chinese literature. This Noble Prize has now taken things to a whole new level. There have even been talks of his hometown spending RBM 670 million on growing over 10,000 mu (approximately 1647 acres) of red sorghum, an im<em><\/em>portant symbol in Mo&rsquo;s novel, to ho<em><\/em>nor him and as a project to promote tourism.<\/p>\n<p>  Selected Works<br \/>  &ldquo;Frog&rdquo;(\u300a\u86d9\u300bW\u0101), 2009, currently untranslated<br \/>  &ldquo;Life and Death are Wearing Me Out&rdquo; (\u300a\u751f\u6b7b\u75b2\u52b3\u300bSh\u0113ngs\u01d0 P&iacute;l&aacute;o), 2006<br \/>  &ldquo;Republic of Wine&rdquo; (\u300a\u9152\u56fd\u300bJi\u01d4 Gu&oacute;), 2005<br \/>  &ldquo;Big Breasts and Wide Hips&rdquo; (\u300a\u4e30\u4e73\u80a5\u81c0\u300bF\u0113ng R\u01d4 F&eacute;i T&uacute;n), 1996<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-907818531\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mo Yan Born in 1955, the novelist\/short story writer&rsquo;s real name is Guan Moye (\u7ba1\u8c1f\u4e1a), better known by his pen<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[86,43,118],"class_list":["post-8616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-reading","tag-childhood-memories","tag-chinese-literature","tag-culture"],"views":299,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}