Mo Yan Speaks: On politics, literature, translators, and more
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Book Review of “Mo Yan Speaks: Lectures and Speeches by the Nobel Laureate from China”
The following is from a review of Mo Yan Speaks: Lectures and Speeches by the Nobel Laureate from China, the latest from the Nobel laureate (translated by Shiyan Xu) in the Los Angeles Review of Books: His public lectures combine anecdotes from his rural childhood with musings on literary style…
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Book Excerpt from Mo Yan Speaks
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, whose name literally means “don’t speak,” is renowned for his fiction, which includes The Garlic Ballads; Red Sorghum; Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out; The Republic of Wine; and Big Breasts and Wide Hips (all translated into English by Professor Howard Goldblatt). Mo Yan’s fiction…
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#AAS2021 Highlights
Cambria Press is proud to be a sponsor for the #AAS2021 conference. Here are a few of the new books that we will be showcasing: Mo Yan Speaks: Lectures and Speeches by the Nobel Laureate from China by Mo Yan (translated by Shiyan Xu; foreword by Jonathan Stalling) “To have…
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Essential Books on Modern China on Amazon Kindle
Here are a few outstanding Cambria Press books you can get (or give) on Amazon Kindle: The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History by Ann Huss and Jianmei Liu (eds). $27.99 “A successful study of Jin Yong’s literature with valuable and insightful opinions ……
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#MLA15 Mapping Literature and Linguistics – E. K. Tan Presenting Tomorrow @ 1:45 p.m.
E. K Tan, author of Rethinking Chineseness: Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World , will be presiding tomorrow at 1:45 p.m. at the session Mapping Literature and Linguistics: The Politics of Place and History in Malaysia and Singapore . See also http://goo.gl/0yF8Mh Visit the Cambria Press booth…
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#MLA15 Fiction of Mo Yan: Post–Nobel Prize Assessments – Paul Manfredi Presiding Today @ 5:15 p.m.
Paul Manfredi, author of Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic, will be presiding today at 5:15 p.m. at the session The Fiction of Mo Yan: Post–Nobel Prize Assessments. See also http://goo.gl/HmWvaX Visit the Cambria Press booth (402) in the book exhibit hall and enter our #MLA15 book-giveaway draw for…
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#MLA15 On Mo Yan’s Fiction – Shelley Chan will be presenting today @5:15 p.m.
Shelley Chan, author of A Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan, will be presenting today at 5:15 p.m. at the session Memory as Absence, Rhetoric, Identity, and Critique in Mo Yan’s Fiction. See also http://goo.gl/9OLkXW Visit the Cambria Press booth (402) in the book exhibit hall…
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#MLA15 Contemporary Chinese Poetry and the Other Arts – Paul Manfredi Presiding Tomorrow @ 1:45 p.m.
Paul Manfredi, author of Modern Poetry in China: A Visual-Verbal Dynamic, will be presiding tomorrow at 1:45 p.m. at the session Contemporary Chinese Poetry and the Other Arts. See also http://goo.gl/HmWvaX Visit the Cambria Press booth (402) in the book exhibit hall and enter our #MLA15 book-giveaway draw for a…
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#MLA15 Mo Yan fans! Here’s the perfect complement to the Nobel laureate’s novels!
There couldn’t be a better endorsement than from Dr. Howard Goldblatt, the translator of Mo Yan’s novels: “I recommend this first full-length study in English to anyone who wants the perfect complement to their reading of Mo Yan’s novels.” Browse A Subversive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan…
