{"id":2951,"date":"2014-09-13T11:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T11:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2014-09-06T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T19:11:16","slug":"tienchi-martin-liaoa-nobel-prize-for-the-partys-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/tienchi-martin-liaoa-nobel-prize-for-the-partys-darling","title":{"rendered":"Tienchi Martin-Liao:A Nobel Prize for the Party\u2019s Darling"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 24, 2012<\/span><\/p>\n

What Mo Yan\u2019s award means to China<\/p>\n

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\nNobel Laureate Mo Yan<\/p>\n

Mo Yan in Hamburg, 2008. Photo: Johannes Kolfhaus. Creative Commons.<\/p>\n

Li Changchun, chief propagandist for the CCP, congratulated this year\u2019s Nobel laureate in Literature, Mo Yan, with high spirits: \u201c(This award) reflects the prosperity and progress of Chinese literature, as well as the increasing influence of China.\u201d It\u2019s difficult to understand what the politician means by \u201cthe increasing influence of China.\u201d It couldn\u2019t mean that China put pressure on the committee, but it does show the Chinese authority\u2019s self-confidence and their way of interpreting their citizen\u2019s international fame.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, when Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the Chinese government was outraged and criticized the award as a desecration of the Nobel tradition. Since this year\u2019s winner Mo Yan is a CCP member and vice president of the Writers\u2019 Association, we can suppose that the reputation of the Nobel Committee might be \u201crehabilitated\u201d in the eyes of the Chinese officials. This \u201cNobel complex,\u201d as The New Yorker refers to it, seems healed. Mo Yan has said he hopes for the release of his Nobel colleague Liu Xiaobo, who could not go to Oslo in 2010 to receive the Peace Prize because of his crime of \u201cinciting subversion of state power.\u201d Liu\u2019s eleven-year sentence will keep him in jail until 2020.<\/p>\n

The 55 year-old Mo Yan is a prolific writer. His early writings during the 80s and 90s, including \u201cTouming de hong luobo\u201d (\u201cA Transparent Carrot,\u201d) \u201cBaigou qiuqianjia\u201d (\u201cWhite Dog and the Swing,\u201d) and \u201cKuhe\u201d (\u201cDry River\u201d) are lyrical and literarily \u201cdown to earth.\u201d These poems and short stories are strongly rooted to nature and the landscape of his hometown \u2013 Gaomi in Shandong province.<\/p>\n

Mo Yan\u2019s childhood was accompanied by hunger. He was so traumatized by the 1959 famine that his utmost wish as child was to have three meals a day and to eat as much as he wanted. When he was 11 years old the Cultural Revolution broke out; Shandong was one of the bloodiest battlefields of the Red Guards. Different groups declared that they were the truly authentic representatives of Mao Zedong\u2019s ideas. The civil war led to fights among armed groups that cost many human lives and left incurable scars on Chinese society. Mo Yan joined the army in 1976 and served for many years. Hunger and violence are prominent in his writing.<\/p>\n

 
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