China, Mo Yan and the Nobel: Truth and Consequences
Susan D. Blum
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Posted 02.12.2013
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Censorship in China is widely known and lamented. Chinese literature has a long history of what Emily Dickinson's poem alluded to: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant. It's possible that Mo Yan chooses "not to speak" about the political situation directly, but to tell it slant.
