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Red Sorghum (novel)

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Edward L. Davis Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture 2012 "He first published in 1981 and is best known for his 1986 novel, Red Sorghum (Hong gaoliang), which is a firstperson account of a grandson's visit to his ancestral home and his retelling of its history during the Japanese
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Jing Wang - High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China -1996 p187 "Yet The Red Sorghum Clan is by no means a clear-cut case of classic modernism. Although framed in a temporal limbo somewhere between the past and the present that bears close resemblance to the
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Mo Yan employs a terse style in the novel that is characterized by brevity and non-chronological storytelling written in the first-person. The work contains elements of folk-tale that blend into myth and superstition, placing it in the magic-realist genre.
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2000 p495 "Fin 1987, Mo Yan published Honggaoliang jiazu (Eng. Red Sorghum), a novel set in his Shandong hometown of Northeast Gaomi Township. Relating the story of a peasant family from 1923 to 1976, this first novel is about
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p 3 Frances K. Gateward - 2001 "I didn't know Mo Yan; I first read his novel, Red Sorghum, really liked it, and then gave him a phone call. Mo Yan suggested that we meet once. It was April and I was still filming
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A Subsersive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan 2011 "Mo Yan, The Red Sorghum Family, 2. Translation from Mo Yan, Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, trans. Howard Goldblatt,"
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frames the narrative as a symbol of indifference and vitality. Amidst decades of bloodshed and death, it grows steadfast to provide food, shelter, wine and life.
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The novel is a compilation of five novellas: "Red Sorghum", "Sorghum Wine", "Dog Ways", "Sorghum Funeral", and "Strange Death". "Red Sorghum" was published in
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2008 p270 "作为《红高粱家族》系列长篇小说中的第三部,中篇小说《狗道》发表于《十月》杂志 1986 年第 4 期,第二部《高粱酒》发表于《解放军文艺》 1986 年第 7 期,第四部《高粱殡》发表于《北京文学》 1986 年第 8 期,第五部《奇死》发表于《昆仑》 1986 年第 6 期。
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family between 1923 and 1976. The narrator tells the story of his family's struggles, first as distillery owners making
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and the 1972 resumption of diplomatic relations between China and Japan. As the principal crop of
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Excerpts of the novel were included in the 2016 Chinese literature anthology
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magazine. The novel was translated from the Chinese by
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and "Strange Death" in the November–December issue of
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Index


Mo Yan
Howard Goldblatt
Shandong
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese

高粱
家族
pinyin
Mo Yan
People's Literature
Howard Goldblatt
Shandong
sorghum wine
Second Sino-Japanese War
Cultural Revolution
Shandong
Gaomi
sorghum bicolor
Zhang Yimou
Red Sorghum
Golden Bear
Berlin Film Festival
TV series
Zheng Xiaolong
The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature
"'The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature,' Edited by Yunte Huang"
ISSN
0362-4331

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