Introduction
Jiang Lin and Li Yan .........................................................................i
Preface
Jiang Lin ........................................................................................ iii
Mo Yan and the Chinese Mind
Li Jingze ..........................................................................................1
Originality and Transcendence: What Mo Yan Has
Enlightened Us
Guo Jie ..........................................................................................11
Hallucination, Localization and Folk Narrative
Tradition: Mo Yan and Literary Criticism
Cheng Guangwei ..........................................................................24
Folkness and Literature: e Chinese Experience in Mo
Yans Narratives
Zhang Ning ...................................................................................52
Mnemonics: Intergenerational Metaphor, Ideological
Fantasy and Memory Field: A Reading of Mo Yans e
Transparent Carrot
Wang Min ......................................................................................82
Childhood Narrative: The Richness of Meanings in
Reinterpretation of Mo Yans e Transparent Carrot
Wang Yusong ................................................................................98
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Samsara, Violence and Satire: A Discussion of the Absurd
Narration in Mo Yans Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Wu Yaozong ................................................................................114
The Carnivalesque Narrative of the Devil Dance: Mo
Yans Narrative Characteristics in Red Sorghum Clan
Ding Guoxing and Chen Haiquan ..............................................138
The Historical Image and the History of the Image: A
Discussion of Gains and Losses in Mo Yans Red Sorghum Clan
Jiang Chun ..................................................................................154
Is Big Breasts and Wide Hips an Almost Reactionary
Work? : Comments on the Conceptions and Methods
of Mr. He Guoruis Literary Criticism
Yi Zhuxian and Chen Guoen ......................................................172
e Fact and Fable in e Republic of Wine: About Mo
Yans Narrative Strategies
Zhou Yingxiong ..........................................................................186
Elegy of History and the Swan Song of Life: A Discussion
of Mo Yans New Novel Sandalwood Death
Han Chen ....................................................................................199
Biopolitics and Historical Writing: A Discussion of
Mo Yans Frog
Li Songrui ...................................................................................219
Mo Yan and William Faulkner: Construction and Interpretation
of Folk Mythology
Li Yingfeng ..................................................................................235
Notes on Contributors ................................................................247
Notes on Translators ..................................................................252
Appendix: Partial Lists of Mo Yans Works in Both
Chinese and English ...............................................................254