Did the Wrong Chinese Writer Win a Nobel Prize? - (blog)

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Did the Wrong Chinese Writer Win a Nobel Prize? - (blog)

Last week, Chinese writer Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy. In sharp contrast to its outrage after poet and critic Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago, China’s government delightedly trumpeted its joy. Prime-time broadcasts on state-run CCTV were interrupted to announce Mo Yan’s prize and numerous news sources including the People’s Daily, another instrument of the Chinese government, proclaimed Mo’s winning the award “a comfort, a certification and also an affirmation but even more so, it is a new starting point.” During the Cold War, dissident writers Russian and Eastern European writers (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Joseph Brodsky and Jaroslav Seifert) were awarded the Nobel Prize. Is the West giving up on human rights in China, in tacit acknowledgement of its wanting to stay on the Communist nation’s good side...

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