When Chinese novelist Mo Yan accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this week, the relationship between literature and politics attracted much attention. The award is often given to writers ...

Mo Yan, trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt. Viking, $23.50 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-84402-9 In the way that Chinese landscape painting reshapes the viewer's perspective by offering not one ...

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) In my ...

The nationalist blogger who attempted to sue Nobel-Prize winning author Mo Yan for 1.5 billion yuan for allegedly “defaming heroes and martyrs” in his fiction has had his lawsuit rejected by ...

The events included screenings of recorded stage productions, concerts by the China Conservatory Traditional Orchestra and ...