With a reincarnation, Mo Yan revisits the history of Communist China.

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Originally published on Rue89- 30/8/2009.

 

 

A new novel by Chinese writer Mo Yan is an event: “The Harsh Law of Karma” (the french translation for ”Life and death are wearing me out”) is no exception. Through an animal reincarnation cascade, he leads the reader through the Chinese history of the last sixty years. During his visit to Paris in June 2009, Rue89 met Mo Yan, who had presented his latest work.

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Banned 16 years, “Fallen Capital” by Jia Pingwa, is now released.

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Originally published on Rue89, 14/8/2009.

Jia Pingwa is one of the favorite writers of the Chinese public. He received a few months ago, the most prestigious literary award, the Mao Dun prize. But the news ,in the middle of the holiday period, is the publication of one of his novels, ” Fallen Capital ” banned for pornography in 1993. The novel had, at that time, won in France the Prix Femina for foreign literature.

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