Introduction Jiang Lin and Li Yan .........................................................................i Preface Jiang Lin ........................................................................................ iii Mo Yan and the Chinese Mind Li Jingze ..........................................................................................1 Originality and Transcendence: What Mo Yan Has Enlightened Us Guo Jie ..........................................................................................11 Hallucination, Localization and Folk Narrative Tradition: Mo Yan and Literary Criticism Cheng Guangwei ..........................................................................24 Folkness and Literature: e Chinese Experience in Mo Yan’s Narratives Zhang Ning ...................................................................................52 Mnemonics: Intergenerational Metaphor, Ideological Fantasy and Memory Field: A Reading of Mo Yan’s e Transparent Carrot Wang Min ......................................................................................82 Childhood Narrative: The Richness of Meanings in Reinterpretation of Mo Yan’s e Transparent Carrot Wang Yusong ................................................................................98 viii Samsara, Violence and Satire: A Discussion of the Absurd Narration in Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out Wu Yaozong ................................................................................114 The Carnivalesque Narrative of the Devil Dance: Mo Yan’s Narrative Characteristics in Red Sorghum Clan Ding Guoxing and Chen Haiquan ..............................................138 The Historical Image and the History of the Image: A Discussion of Gains and Losses in Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum Clan Jiang Chun ..................................................................................154 Is Big Breasts and Wide Hips an “Almost Reactionary Work”? : Comments on the Conceptions and Methods of Mr. He Guorui’s Literary Criticism Yi Zhuxian and Chen Guo’en ......................................................172 e Fact and Fable in e Republic of Wine: About Mo Yan’s Narrative Strategies Zhou Yingxiong ..........................................................................186 Elegy of History and the Swan Song of Life: A Discussion of Mo Yan’s New Novel Sandalwood Death Han Chen ....................................................................................199 “Biopolitics” and Historical Writing: A Discussion of Mo Yan’s Frog Li Songrui ...................................................................................219 Mo Yan and William Faulkner: Construction and Interpretation of Folk Mythology Li Yingfeng ..................................................................................235 Notes on Contributors ................................................................247 Notes on Translators ..................................................................252 Appendix: Partial Lists of Mo Yan’s Works in Both Chinese and English ...............................................................254
