Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews On December 5, Chinese writer Mo Yan, the current winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, departed for Sweden to accept the award with his wife, daughter, and director of the Culture, Radio, Press and Publications Bureau in Gaomi, Shandong, along with nine interpreters. Chinese people's trip to Sweden for the Nobel Prize sparked the attention of the world. The main activities of the Chinese writer Mo Yan in Sweden include delivering a speech at the Swedish Academy on Dec. 8, and attending the the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on Dec. 10. Chen Liming, a publisher who went with Mo Yan, revealed that in addition to the abovementioned activities, Mo will also lecture at some universities, and will have a conversation with Anna Chen, the interpreter. Chen Liming said when Mo Yan arrived at the airport, "he felt it sunny and good." Since the announcement of Mo Yan's award-winning news, the outside world have been highly concerned about his activities. Jing Chu (writer in China): "Liu Xiaobo and Mo Yan's winning of the Prize is the glory of the Chinese people. Chinese people should be proud of it. Personally, for some of Mo Yan's works, I feel that he lacks the moral courage as an intelligentsia for the society. I feel in my heart that he is a cynic." Winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2012, an exiled writer Liao Yiwu, sent a letter to the judges of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Liao Yiwu criticized the judges awarding of the Nobel Prize to Mo Yan as a big mistake. Liao wrote in his letter that the predecessors once granted the award to Sholokhov, a former senior official of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which caused a great disaster, causing the founder Nobel unease. He said granting the prize to Mo Yan, a senior official of the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and speech censorship advocator, will result in a greater disaster. He said this will simply cause Mr. Nobel to cry. Liao Yiwu criticized Mo Yan in the letter as, "Selectively expose the dark side of the Mao' era, and became popular with artifices in the Hu Jintao' era." However, the cultural critic Ye Kuangzheng has a different view. Ye Kuangzheng pointed out that Mo Yan's experience is special. Without a high level of education, he went into the city step-by-step as a soldier and gradually built up his fame in writing, to finally became a Vice Chairman of the Writers' Association. His identity caused him to have a close relationship with the CCP system, but his work did not sing the praises of the authoritarian regime. Strictly speaking, his novel has anti-totalitarian content, but that content is not that pronounced. Cultural critic Ye Kuangzheng: "The traditional Chinese culture believes that a person's personality and knowledge are one. As we know, in the history of China, famous literati or scholars, poets, their works are at one with their personality. It is therefore common that the Chinese people have this kind of idea. For example, Li Bai, Du Fu and Fan Zhongyan, their personalities are inseparable from their works." Ye Kuangzheng pointed out that in Western society, literary works are separated from the author's personality. Now the focus of global media attention is whether Mo Yan mentions Liu Xiaobo in his speech. Agence France-Presse believes that Mo Yan's first speech could not offend the Chinese government, but he still has to face those former Nobel Prize winners, among whom 134 had jointly appealed to the Chinese Communist regime to immediately release Liu Xiaobo. Agence France-Presse pointed out, "Mo Yan's acceptance speech have to use discretionary sentences." Ye Kuang: "The CCP actually was caught in a dilemma too. First, for Mo Yan, the Nobel Prize for Literature, demanding the release of another Nobel Peace Prize winner would seem very natural. Otherwise, (if he doesn't mention it), it shows that the values of Literature and the Peace Prize have problems." However, the words of the official that accompanied Mo Yan stunned the world. According to Shao Chunsheng, the director of the Culture, Radio, Press and Publications Bureau in Gaomi, Shandong, another purpose of his attending together with Mo Yan is to promote Red Sorghum culture of Gaomi, Shandong. Writer Jing Chu said CCP officials work exclusively for profit. It is inexcusable for them to accept the Nobel Prize, the world will be scornful. 《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/

• published: 07 Dec 2012
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