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Chapter & Verse China transforms Nobel Prize winner's hometown into a theme park
The area will be known as the Mo Yan Culture and Experience Zone, but author Mo Yan remains ambivalent about the new attraction.
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How did China's Mo Yan win the Nobel Prize for literature? (+video)
While many including China's Communist Party celebrated their countryman's receipt of the Nobel Prize for literature, others criticized the winner, Mo Yan, for failing to be innovative or independent.
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Mo Yan: Why the Swedish Academy awarded Mo Yan the Nobel Prize (+video)
Mo Yan s the first Chinese winner of the literature prize who is not a critic of China's government, but the Swedish Academy says that it did not take political considerations into account when selecting the popular novelist.
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Chapter & Verse Chinese writer Mo Yan wins the Nobel Prize for literature
Mo Yan, whose real name is Guan Moye, is the first Chinese citizen to win the award.
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Chinese author Mo Yan wins Nobel Prize in literature (+video)
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan gives readers outside China an idea of what it is like to be Chinese, while people inside China gain a sense of history, says one distinguished translator.
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Global News Blog Christian Bale roughed up in bid to visit dissident in China
Actor Christian Bale, in China to promote 'The Flowers of War,' tussled with thugs as he tried to visit Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. Was the encounter a bit self-promotional or helpful?
12/16/2011 10:49 am -
China In Ten Words
How do you best define a country? Chinese author Yu Hua summarizes his homeland in 10 words.
12/08/2011 06:10 am -
Ai Weiwei: Why does he make Chinese authorities nervous?
The famous Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei hasn’t been heard from since his arrest Sunday by Chinese authorities. The disappearance of Mr. Ai, who uses his art to express political dissent, is just one of a slew of recent arrests by the Chinese government in what seems to be a bid to prevent protests inspired by the Middle East uprisings to China. Ai has long been at odds with the Chinese government, and this isn’t the first confrontation. What has made Ai a marked man in China?
04/05/2011 01:54 pm -
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop: movie review
Set in the desert, 'A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop' is the tale of double and triple crosses as an old miser discovers his wife is having an affair and hires an assassin.
09/03/2010 07:26 pm -
Tiananmen Anniversary: Memory of executed poet resonates
Lin Zhao, who was executed in 1968, challenged history and Mao.
05/01/2009 01:00 am -
The Vote Obama wins TIME "Person of the Year" - Palin is a runner up
12/17/2008 12:00 am
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