Search Results for Mo Yan

... of the twentieth century, after its popularity had already waned in the West and in Soviet Russia. This article examines the Chinese rendering of revolutionary romanticism during the Mao and post-Mao periods. In particular, it focuses on Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan’s 1986 short story “Revolutionary Romanticism...

... style. The simultaneity of modernism and postmodernism is a clue to the interpretation of Chinese fiction of the 1980s and 1990s. Postmodernist exuberant fabulation, partly inspired by Gabriel García Márquez and partly by traditional Chinese fiction, can be found in fiction by Mo Yan, Yu Hua, and Han...

... been interrupted during the Cultural Revo- lution, few Chinese writers of this decade had direct access to origi- nal texts. They naturally relied on translations for creative inspiration. Mo Yan once said that he was more influenced by translations than by originals.13 Of course, foreign...

... imported postmodernism assimilated elements of other move- ments, especially those of a Chinese-inflected modernism. Fokkema’s essay discusses Chinese postmodern literature in detail by focusing on the works of Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Wang Shuo, and Han Shaogong. Cul- tural modernity as a project...

... the literary scene. It did not reappear until after the so-called New Period (1978 – 89), when China’s open policy encouraged the importation of literary and cultural theo- ries from the West. As for Chinese postmodernism, scholars believe that only present-day writers like Can Xue, Yu Hua, Ge Fei, Mo...

..., Yu Hua, Ge Fei, Ye Zhaoyan, Hong Feng, Ma Yuan, Mo Yan, Can Xue, and Lü Xin, and avant-garde poets like Daozi (pen name of Wang Min). The second is marked by the rise of the “new realist school” ( xin xieshipai ) of fiction and its practitioners’ reaction, and challenge, to the radical...

... subjectivity in geographically remote regions. Its contributors include such innovative writers as A Cheng, Han Shaogong, Jia Pingwa, Li Rui, Liu Heng, Mo Yan, and Zhang Chengzhi, whose works changed the face of contemporary Chinese literature. 248 MLQ June...

... canlan de rizi, 1995) and Electric Shadows (Dianying wangshi, 2004). In the first years of the twenty-first century, scholars started to give the prolific cinema of the Seventeen Years due attention. Yin Hong and Ling Yan note the rise of protogeneric films between 1956 – 66, even though...

...,” for undergraduate comparative literature concentrators at Hong Kong Baptist University, I include fiction, essays, and poems written by authors from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, that is, Han Suyin, Timothy Mo, Richard Mason, Christopher New, Lu Xun, Wang Tao, Xi Xi, Shih Shu-qing, Aileen Chang, Liu Yichang...

... the secret mo- tives that actuated great men, who are made to reveal their sup- posed innermost thoughts, never spoken or committed to paper. These biographies are written in a highly epigrammatic style, with the emphasis wholly on the form of the remark and not at all on its truth. No doubt...