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:The Chinese Experience in Mo Yan's Narratives&Zhang Ning 52
Mnemonics:Intergenerational Metaphor,Ideological Fantasy and Memory Field:A Reading of Mo Yan's The Transparent Carrot&Wang Min 82
Childhood Narrative:The Richness of Meanings in Reinterpretation of Mo Yan's The Transparent Carrot&Wang Yusong 98
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
The Fact and Fable in The 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