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The Military and Cultural Institute of National Defense University, People's Liberation Army (Chinese: 中国人民解放军国防大学军事文化学院), previously the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art (Chinese: 中国人民解放军艺术学院, colloquially known as Junyi 军艺), is an academic institute of the PLA National Defense ...
The People's Liberation Army Academy of Art (Chinese: 中国人民解放军艺术学院) is a university in Haidian District, Beijing, China. It has one campus, consisting of 7 departments and 12 specialties.
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Mo Yan was born in February of 1955 into a peasant family in Ping'an Village, Gaomi Township, northeast of Shandong Province, the People's Republic of China. He is the youngest of four children with two older brothers and an older sister. His family was of a upper-middle peasant class background. Mo was 11 years old when the Cultural Revolution was...
"Mo Yan" – "don't speak" in Chinese – is his pen name. Mo Yan has explained on occasion that the name comes from a warning from his father and mother not to speak his mind while outside, because of China's revolutionary political situation from the 1950s, when he grew up. In an interview with Professor David Wang, Mo Yan stated that he changed his ...
Mo Yan began his career as a writer in the reform and opening up period, publishing dozens of short stories and novels in Chinese. His first published short story was "Falling Rain on a Spring Night", published in September 1981. In 1986, the five parts that formed his first novel, Red Sorghum (1987), were published serially. It is a non-chronologi...
Mo Yan's ability to convey traditionalist values inside of his mythical realism writing style in The Old Gunhas allowed insight and view on the swift modernization of China. This short story of Mo Yan was an exemplary example for the "Xungen movement" Chinese literary movement and influenced many to turn back to traditional values. This movement po...
Mo Yan's works are predominantly social commentary, and he is strongly influenced by the social realism of Lu Xun and the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez. In terms of traditional Chinese literature, he is deeply inspired by the folklore-based classical epic novel Water Margin. He cites Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber as f...
Mo Yan's works are epic historical novels characterized by hallucinatory realism and containing elements of black humor. Mo Yan's language is distinguished by his imaginative use of colour expressions. A major theme in Mo Yan's works is the constancy of human greed and corruption, despite the influence of ideology. He sets many of his stories near ...
Mo Yan has written 11 novels, and several novellas and short story collections. This is a complete list of Mo Yan's works published as a collection in 2012 in China (after Mo Yan received the Nobel Prize).
1998: Neustadt International Prize for Literature, candidate2005: International Nonino Prize2005: Doctor of Letters, Open University of Hong Kong2006: Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize XVII2013: The City University of New York, United States2013: Fo Guang University, Taiwan2014: Sofia University, Bulgaria2014: The Open University of Hong Kong, ChinaSeveral of Mo Yan's works have been adapted for film: 1. Red Sorghum (1987) (directed by Zhang Yimou) 2. The Sun Has Ears (1995) (directed by Yim Ho, adaptation of Grandma Wearing Red Silk) 3. Happy Times (2000) (directed by Zhang Yimou, adaptation of Shifu: You'll Do Anything for a Laugh) 4. Nuan (2003) (directed by Huo Jianqi, adaptation of White...
Sep 11, 2016 · Synopsis. This original dance drama portrays how Chinese people won the hard-earned new-democratic revolution. Through such effort, Chinese nation finally stood up. Seven Feet Ode tells a naked truth that "people, only people, can be deemed the driving force of creating world history."
This page contains the name of people who have studied at People's Liberation Army Arts College.
The Military and Cultural Institute of National Defense University, People's Liberation Army (Chinese: 中国人民解放军国防大学军事文化学院), previously the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art (Chinese: 中国人民解放军艺术学院, colloquially known as Junyi 军艺), is an academic institute of the PLA National Defense ...
In 1984, he received a literary award from the PLA Magazine, and the same year began attending the People's Liberation Army Arts College, where he first adopted the pen name of Mo Yan. He published his first novella, A Transparent Radish, in 1984, and released Red Sorghum in 1986, launching his career as a nationally recognized novelist. [13]
