Comments on: Top-of-the-Week Links: China gets serious about self-immolation, the heartbreaking fate of Beijing Zoo’s cats, and Mo Yan goes under the microscope http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/top-of-the-week-links-self-immolation-beijing-zoo-cats-mo-yan/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: » Mo Yan’s Nobel Banquet Speech: “When (Literature) Does Not Exist, Our Lives Become Coarsened And Brutal” Beijing Cream http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/top-of-the-week-links-self-immolation-beijing-zoo-cats-mo-yan/#comment-213955 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 03:36:20 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=7302#comment-213955 [...] read these stories about him. Check out his considerably longer lecture. Um, read the Xinhua write-up? Then chatter [...]

]]> By: King Baeksu http://beijingcream.com/2012/12/top-of-the-week-links-self-immolation-beijing-zoo-cats-mo-yan/#comment-213891 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:31:34 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=7302#comment-213891 “His remarks did not appease the dissident poet Ye Du, who was quoted in an article in The South China Morning Post: ‘In the last few days, he has defended the system of censorship . . . then in his lecture, he talks about storytelling — to use a Chinese expression, he is like a prostitute insisting her services are clean.’”

Lol, reading the Mo Yan backlash is better than watching “The Man with the Iron Fists.”

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