...Wang Jinghui As the first Chinese citizen to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan shows how a writer in a socialist country successfully internalizes censorship. Censorship in China is part of Mo Yan’s professional and psychic environment and generates two major results in his works, one...

... have written with the explanation that it shouldn t matter if your poetry sucks. . . . You wrote it. You created something, you molded words together and it means something personal to you . . . to me, poetry is simply being pure and honest with yourself (quoted in Yan 2017). As might be expected...

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..., it was thought, it must move from the periphery to the center by identifying with a prior dominant force: Western cultural modernity or mod- ern Western literature. That is why, at the threshold of the twentieth century, such Chinese intellectuals and writers as Yan Fu, Lin Shu, Liang Qichao, Lu Xun...