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Yan Lianke(Chinese:Diêm liền khoa;born August 24, 1958) is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based inBeijing.His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in some of his most renowned works being banned in China.[1] He has admitted to self-censorship while writing his stories in order to avoid censorship.[2]
Yan Lianke | |
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 Yan Lianke in 2010 | |
| Born | August 24, 1958 Henan,China |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater | Henan University; People's Literature Army Arts College |
| Period | 1980–present |
| Genre | fiction, prose, script, literacy theory |
| Notable awards | Lu Xun Literary Prize, Franz Kafka Prize |
| Spouse | Zhai Lisha |
| Children | Yan Songwei |
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| Traditional Chinese | Diêm liền khoa | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | Diêm liền khoa | ||||||||
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Photo Hreinn Gudlaugsson)
His novels includeServe the People!,Lenin's Kisses,andDream of Ding Village.He has also published more than ten volumes of short stories.
Yan won theFranz Kafka Prizein 2014 and has been shortlisted for theMan Booker International Prizetwice. His style is described as experimental and surreal, employing a self-described "mythorealism".[3]
Life
editYan Lianke was born inSong County,HenanProvince, central China. Though he lives in Beijing, he has said that his heart remains in Henan, and he has based numerous works on life in Henan, includingDream of Ding Village.He entered the army in 1978. He graduated fromHenan Universityin 1985 with a degree in politics and education. In 1991, he graduated from the People's Liberation Army Art Institute with a degree in literature.
His childhood house was demolished by a farmer who believed that Yan's offers of money werebad faithattempts to lowball the true value, and he demolished the house in hopes of raising the land value, not realizing that the value came from the structure being Yan's house.[3]
Literary career
editFiction
editHe published his first short story in 1979. He has published 14 novels and over 40 short stories.
His early writings are mostly Realist pieces heavily influenced by 19th century Realism. But towards the end of the 1990s his style displayed a major change. His subsequent works are more infused with wild imagination and creative allegories. His sometimes myth-like dramatic plots are often allegorical depictions of the human conditions.
A number of his fictions are set in the natural environment of Balou Mountain. It has become the most important setting of Yan's literary world, and the most noted fictional landscape created in Chinese literature. This is particularly true with the publication of the "Balou Mountain Series" comprisingThe Passing of[Riguang liunian],Hard as Water[Jianying rushui] andLenin's Kisses[Shouhuo] around 2000. The depictions of Chinese history and reality in these novels are characterised by a sharp edge which is simultaneously profound, absurd and carnivalesque. Yan's protagonists are strange in behavior, and psychologically twisted and complex. This represents another major change in Yan's style from his earlier works. They often provoke surprise in his readers and critics, and debates and controversies at the time of their publication.
Yan became "sensitive" in China at the time of publication ofLenin's Kisses.He openly challenged what he described asRealism of the spirit(s)[Shengshi zhuyi], and advocated for a return to "a realism that transcends reality". Indeed, this makes sense, since Yan himself has said that to live in modern China "is to inhabit a reality that makes you question the very nature of reality."[4]Yan's outward beliefs about the ineffectuality of Realism as an artistic mode have since revived the ongoing debate among Chinese literati on the nature and utility of Literary Realism.
In France, the French translation ofLenin's Kisseshas also received critical acclaim. Its translations in other languages have been equally popular. A writer ofLe Monderates Yan's writings highly, and rates him one among the great writers in the world. The same writer suggests that Yan distinguishes himself with his sophisticated insights on the society expressed in his fictions, and that his writings often shows a devastating humour.The Guardiandescribes him as a master of satire with a rich imagination.Vanity Fair(Italy) notes Yan's mastery in writing between magic and reality..The Frankfurt Christian Science Monitorsuggests that Yan possesses both the talent for writing great works and the courage to confront difficult issues. The Japanese magazineThe Worldconsiders Yan and his writings important setters of standard for Chinese literature and freedom of expression.
The bans imposed onServe the PeopleandDream of Ding Villagegarnered him notoriety.
The Four Bookswas published in 2011 in Taiwan. It was also around the same time when he advocated aRealism of the spirit(s)[Shengshi zhuyi], purporting that Chinese literature should represent "the invisible reality", "the reality that is covered up by reality", and "the non-existing reality". This advocacy in the construction of an "absolute reality" is put into practice in his own novelsThe Explosion ChroniclesandThe Day the Sun Died.The characters in these works are "Chinese through-and-through". Their plots are depictions of a reality that is "Chinese through-and-through", but filled with imaginative "possibilities" and "mytho-realist" "impossibilities", which express his vision of his China being a "dark", "desperate" place where the idea of "future" only brings "anxieties".
These works are his practice of his avowed aspiration inDiscovering Fiction[Faxian xiaoshuo] to create a Chinese literature endowed with the modern spirit of world literature, and differentiate themselves from Western Surrealism, Absurdism and Magical Realism, and that is modern and belongs to the East. In this sense, Yan can be appreciated as a writer of world literature. His novelsServe the People,Dream of Ding Village,Lenin's Kisses,The Four BooksandThe Explosion Chronicleshave been translated into a number of languages and distributed widely in the Americas, Europe and the Australia. Almost all these translations have attracted attention and critical acclaim for the novels in their respective literary markets. Further,The Explosion Chroniclesextended its fame to Africa, being shortlisted withCarlos Rojas' English translation for theGPLA 2017.[5]
In terms of the contents, Yan's fictions have all shown tremendous anxieties in his vision of "the Chinese people", Chinese reality and history. In terms of generic treatment, every one of his novels has displayed a new structure and linguistic style. To many it is his diverse styles, his readiness to break norms, and his capacity to create new literary norms that have differentiate him from other Chinese writers. It is in this connection that he describes himself as "a traitor of literary writing". His is a pioneer of 20th Century Chinese literature, and is the only Chinese writer who has gained international acclaim without any support, either strategic or financial, of the Chinese Government.
Literary criticism
editYan is the only contemporary Chinese creative writer who has systematically published critical appreciations of 19th and 20th century literatures. These include numerous speeches and dialogues he has given and participated in around the globe, and various pieces of theoretical writings. They are collected inMy Reality, My -ism[Wode xianshi, wode zhuyi],The Red Chopsticksof the Witch[Wupo de hong kuaizi],Tearing Apart and Piling Up[Chaijie yu dieping],Selected Overseas Speeches of Yan Lianke[Yan Lianke haiwai yan gian g ji], andSilence and Rest[Chenmo yu chuaixi]. In these works he expresses in detail his understanding of Chinese literature, world literature, and the changes literature has gone through in the past decades. His 2011 publicationDiscovering Fiction[Faxian xiaoshuo] is an exegesis of his re-discovery of 19th and 20th century Chinese literature and world literature. The book is characterised by his personal style of argument and rationality. It is also in this book that he advocates the differentiation of "full causal relations", "zero causal relations", "half causal relations" and "inner causal relations" in the plots of fiction. He considers this a "new discovery" of fiction writing, and designates it a "Mytho-realism" of Chinese literature. This is the first attempt from a Chinese writer active in the international literary circles to contribute to the theoretical discussions of Realism in the global context. This view of his has been discussed in the academe internationally.
In 2016 Yan was appointed visiting professor of Chinese Culture by the Hong Kong University of Science Technology to teach writing courses. The course material is collected inTwelve Lectures on 19th Century WritingsandTwelve Lectures on 20th Century Writings.They contain his analyses of and arguments about the most influential writers of world literature in the 19th and 20th centuries. Of the twoTwelve Lectures on 20th Century Writingsis more influential, since it represents an attempt of a Chinese writer to review and research on in a comprehensive manner the dissemination and impacts of 20th century world literature on China. It can be used as a research reference or a writing guide.
In the area of critical and theoretical writings, Yan Lianke is the most prolific and vocal among contemporary Chinese writers. Not all writers and critics agree with his views, but he is widely recognised as being unique among contemporary Chinese writer in terms of his persistence in reflecting on methodologies of creative writing.
Essays
editYan's body of creative works include not only fiction, but also a number of lyrical essays which read in contrast to his fiction. While his fiction is characterized by an acute sense of contemporaneity, rich imagination and a compelling creative impulse, his essays are characterised by a conventional aesthetic of the Chinese essay which comes across as gentle, lyrical, and showing much finesse.
His long essayMy Father's Generation and Me[Wo yu fubei],House No.711[711 hao yuan] and his other collections of essays mostly depict the daily life of the Chinese people, and nature in the four seasons, in a lyricism that comes across familiar to Chinese readers. The styles of his fiction and that of his essays are so different that it is difficult to reconcile them as the same body of works by a single writer. His non-fiction works have created an image of the author in both positive and negative light, so that the author becomes a figure who is rich and multi-faceted in his personality.
Mythorealism
editMythorealism (shenshi zhuyiThần thật chủ nghĩa ) is a Yan coinage.[6]Although it has been characterized as a literary device by some critics,[7]it can more accurately be understood as a blending of certain stylistic, formal, and narrative (or storytelling) elements to create a singular literary reality that is divergent from traditional realist representations. Yan has described it as a “creative process” whose aim is to “surpass realism.”[8]According to University of Alberta scholar, Haiyan Xie, “mythorealism incorporates both Chinese and Western literary elements while remaining primarily grounded in Chinese cultural and literary tradition.”[9]Such a rendering involves rejecting traditional narrative practices, for example linearity, logical cause-and-effect relationships, and, to a certain degree, verisimilitude itself. In Yan's own words:
Mythorealism… abandons the seemingly logical relations of real life and explores a “nonexistent” truth, an invisible truth, and a truth concealed by truth. Mythorealism keeps a distance from any prevailing realism. The mythorealist connection with reality does not lie in straightforward cause-and-effect links, but rather relies on human souls, minds… and the authors’ extraordinary fabrications based on reality…. Imaginations, metaphors, myths, legends, dreams, fantasy, demonization, and transplantation born from everyday life and social reality can all serve as mythorealist methods and channels.[10]
In his analysis of certain of Yan’s post-Maoist works, Weijie Song, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at Rutgers – New Brunswick, writes that “…Yan’s imaginative configurations of literary settings, from the metamorphosis of his hometown in Henan Province (in particular the Balou Mountains and Northwestern villages) to the transfiguration of post-Maoist Beijing (especially the construction and destruction of his former home in that city, called ‘Garden No. 711’), illustrate his grotesque, comic, spectacular, miserable, absurd, and deformed literary world.”[11]
Thus, mythorealism is a literary alchemy of sorts—simultaneously a creative process and stylistic mode—that seeks to reshape reality and infuse it with elements of spiritual mythology and magical occurrences. It pulls from a variety of sources and traditions, both within and without the writer’s consciousness.
Novels
editServe the People!
editSet during theCultural Revolution,at the peak ofthe cult of personality of Chairman Mao,the novel tells the story of an affair between the Liu Lian, the wife of a powerful military commander, and a young soldier, Wu Dawang. The two lovers discover that destroying objects related to Chairman Mao, such as thelittle red book,is asexual kinkfor them. The book is a commentary on the choices people were forced to make during theCultural Revolution.[1]
The title is a reference to a phrase originally coined byMao Zedongin a 1944 articleof the same namethat commemorated the death of the red army soldierZhang Side.During the Cultural Revolution, this article was required reading for millions of Chinese, and the slogan was widely used. Due to the sex scenes and political content, the story attracted controversy when it was featured the magazineHuachengin 2005. The Chinese government ordered the publisher to recall all 40,000 copies of the magazine, which in turn created huge demand for the novel.[1]
Dream of Ding Village
editYan's novelDream of Ding Village(Đinh trang mộng) is a novel about people withAIDStrying to survive with little outside help. Yan visited people with AIDS and even lived with villagers for periods of time to make sure the novel was accurate.Dream of Ding Villagehas been compared withAlbert Camus'The Plague(1947).Dream of Ding Villagewas published in Hong Kong in 2006, where it was again banned by the Chinese government for its content.
Other major works
editYan started publishing in 1979. So far the body of works he has produced includes 15 novels, more than 50 novellas, more than 40 short stories, 3 extended essays, 5 collection of essays, 6 collections of literary criticisms, and about a dozen TV and film scripts, amount to over 10 million Chinese characters. However, because of both the controversial nature of and the Chinese government's ban on his works, a considerable part of this body of works has not been published in China. These include the novelsServe the People[Wei renmin fuwu],Dream of Ding Village[Dingzhuang meng],The Four Books,[Sishu],The Dimming Sun[Rixi], and a range of his essays and speeches. Many of his works have been translated and circulated in more than 30 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian and Portuguese.
Works
editNovels
edit| Year | Original title | English title |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Tình cảm ngục | The Hell of Feelings |
| 1993 | Cuối cùng một người nữ thanh niên trí thức | The Last Female Educated Youth |
| 1995 | Sinh tử tinh hoàng | Crystal Yellow in Life and Death |
| 1997 | Kim liên, ngươi hảo | How are You, Pan Jinlian |
| 1998 | Ánh nắng năm xưa | The Passage of Time |
| 2001 | Cứng rắn như nước | Hard as Water |
| Chọi gà | Cock Fight | |
| Xuyên qua | Transgression | |
| 2004 | Chịu sống | Lenin's Kisses |
| 2005 | Vì nhân dân phục vụ | Serve the People |
| 2006 | Đinh trang mộng | Dream of Ding Village |
| 2008 | Phong nhã tụng | The Odes of Songs |
| 2010 | Ngày mùa hè lạc | Summer Sunset |
| 2011 | Tứ thư | The Four Books |
| 2013 | Tạc nứt chí | The Explosion Chronicles |
| 2015 | Ngày tắt | The Day the Sun Died |
| 2018 | Tốc cầu cộng miên | Want to Sleep Together Quickly |
| 2020 | Tâm kinh | Heart Sutra |
| 2022 | Các nàng | Women |
Short story and novella collections
edit| Year | Original title | English title |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Quê nhà chuyện xưa | Stories of the Neighbourhood |
| 1994 | Hoà bình ngụ ngôn | Peace Allegory |
| 1995 | Hướng tới thiên đường đi | The Road to Heaven |
| 1996 | Diêm liền khoa văn tập ﹙5 cuốn ﹚ | Collected Works of Yan Lianke(5 volumes) |
| 1997 | Diêm liền khoa tiểu thuyết tự chọn tập | Collected Stories by Yan Lianke |
| 1998 | Sung sướng gia viên | Happy Home |
| 1998 | Hoàng kim động | The Golden Cave |
| 1999 | Âm tình tròn khuyết: Trọng nói thiên cổ dâm phụ Phan Kim Liên | Wa xing and Waning: A Second Look on the Legendary Slut Pan Jinlian |
| 2000 | Hướng tới Đông Nam đi | To the Southeast |
| 2001 | Bá lâu thiên ca | Marrow |
| 2002 | Tam chày gỗ | The Hammer |
| 2002 | Nông thôn năm tháng | Days in the Village |
| Thời đại ngày | Years, Months, Days | |
| 2003 | Đương đại tác gia kho sách diêm liền khoa cuốn | Works by Contemporary Writers: Yan Lianke |
| 2005 | Thiên cung đồ | The Map of Heaven |
| 2006 | Cách mạng chủ nghĩa lãng mạn: Diêm liền khoa truyện ngắn tác phẩm tiêu biểu | Revolutionary Romanticism: Representative Short Stories of Yan Lianke |
| Mẫu thân là dòng sông | Mother is a River | |
| 2007 | Dao mương người mộng | Dream of the People of Yao Valley |
| Diêm liền khoa văn tập ﹙12 cuốn ﹚ | Works by Yan Lianke(12 volumes) | |
| Diêm liền khoa tác phẩm tinh tuyển tập ( 17 cuốn ) | Representative Works of Yan Lianke(17 Volumes) | |
| 2009 | Số 4 vùng cấm | No. Four Restricted Zone |
| Thiên cung đồ | The Map of Heaven | |
| Hướng tới Đông Nam đi | To the Southeast | |
| 2010 | Diêm liền khoa tiểu thuyết tinh tuyển tập | Representative Works of Yan Lianke |
| Đào viên xuân tỉnh | Awaking in the Cherry Garden | |
| 2011 | Nghệ kỹ phù dung: Diêm liền khoa tiểu thuyết vừa biên năm 1988-1990﹙ đệ 1 tập ﹚ | Geisha Blossoms: Novellas by Yan Lianke (Volume One) 1988-1990 |
| Trung sĩ còn hương: Diêm liền khoa tiểu thuyết vừa biên năm 1991-1993﹙ đệ 2 tập ﹚ | The Scholar Returns: Novellas by Yan Lianke (Volume Two) 1991-1993 | |
| Bá 耬 núi non: Diêm liền khoa tiểu thuyết vừa biên năm 1993-1996﹙ đệ 3 tập ﹚ | Balou Mountains: Novellas by Yan Lianke (Volume Three) 1993-1996 | |
| Đào viên xuân tỉnh: Diêm liền khoa tiểu thuyết vừa biên năm 1996-2009﹙ đệ 4 tập ﹚ | Awaking in the Cherry Garden: Novellas by Yan Lianke(Volume Four) 1996-2009 | |
| 2013 | Diêm liền khoa truyện ngắn tinh tuyển | Representative Works of Yan Lianke |
| 2014 | Hắc bạch diêm liền khoa —— trung thiên Tứ thư ﹙ bốn cuốn ﹚ | Yan Lianke in Black and White: Novella in Four Books(4 volumes) |
Essay collections
edit| Year | Original title | English title |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Màu nâu gông cùm xiềng xích | Brown Shackles |
| 2002 | Phản thân về nhà | Homeward Bound |
| Mụ phù thủy hồng chiếc đũa: Tác gia cùng văn học tiến sĩ đối thoại lục ﹙ cùng lương hồng hợp lại ﹚ | The Witch's Red Chopsticks: A Dialogue between a Writer and a Literature Ph.D.(Co-authored with Liang Hong) | |
| 2005 | Không có biên giới vượt qua: Diêm liền khoa văn xuôi | Transgression without Borders: Essays by Yan Lianke |
| 2008 | Màu vàng đất cùng thảo thanh: Diêm liền khoa thân tình văn xuôi | Yellow Earth and Green Grass: Yan Lianke's Essays on Family and Feelings |
| Nhanh nhẹn linh hoạt cùng hồn linh: Diêm liền khoa đọc sách bút ký | The Wit and the Soul: Yan Lianke's Reading Notes | |
| Hóa giải cùng điệp đua: Diêm liền khoa văn học diễn thuyết | Deconstruction and Juxtaposition: Speeches on Literature by Yan Lianke | |
| 2009 | Diêm liền khoa văn xuôi | Essays by Yan Lianke |
| Ta cùng bậc cha chú | My Father's Generation and I[3] | |
| 2011 | Ta hiện thực, ta chủ nghĩa: Diêm liền khoa văn học đối thoại lục ﹙ cùng trương học hân hợp lại ﹚ | My Reality, My -isms: A Dialogue with Yan Lianke on Literature(co-authored with Zhang Xuexin) |
| Chờ xem | Let's Go and See | |
| Phát hiện tiểu thuyết | Discovering Fiction | |
| 2012 | 711 hào viên | No. 711 |
| Nhất phái nói bậy: Diêm liền khoa hải ngoại diễn thuyết tập | A Load of BS: Yan Lianke's Overseas Speeches | |
| 2013 | Diêm liền khoa văn xuôi | Essays by Yan Lianke |
| Viết làm khó nhất là hồ đồ | The Most Difficult Thing about Writing is to Stay Confused | |
| Hắn nói một đường rơi rụng | His Words Scatter on the Way | |
| Một người ba điều hà cảm nhớ | Thoughts by One Person on Three Rivers | |
| 2014 | Đi ở người khác trên đường: Diêm liền khoa ngữ tư lục | Walking on Other People's Path: Reflections of Yan Lianke |
| Hắc bạch diêm liền khoa —— văn xuôi Tứ thư ﹙ bốn cuốn ﹚ | Yan Lianke in Black and White: Essays in Four Books(4 volumes) | |
| Trầm mặc cùng thở dốc: Ta sở trải qua Trung Quốc văn học | Silence and Rest: Chinese Literature in My Experience | |
| 2015 | Hai đời người 12 tháng ﹙ cùng Tưởng thuyền cứu nạn hợp lại ﹚ | December of Two Generations |
Translated works
editThis is a partial list of Yan's novels.
| Original publication | English publication | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title[12] | Year | Title | Translator(s) | Year |
| Ánh nắng năm xưa Riguang Liunian |
2004 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Chịu sống Shou Huo |
2004 | Lenin's Kisses | Carlos Rojas | 2012 |
| Vì nhân dân phục vụ Wei Renmin Fufu |
2005 | Serve the People! | Julia Lovell | 2008[13] |
| Đinh trang mộng Ding Zhuang Meng |
2006 | Dream of Ding Village | Cindy Carter | 2011 |
| Cứng rắn như nước Jianying Ru Shui |
2009 | Hard Like Water | Carlos Rojas | 2020 |
| Tứ thư Si Shu |
2011 | The Four Books | Carlos Rojas | 2015 |
| Tạc nứt chí Zhalie Zhi |
2013 | The Explosion Chronicles | Carlos Rojas | 2016[14] |
| Ngày tắt Rixi |
2015 | The Day the Sun Died | Carlos Rojas | 2018 |
| Tâm kinh
Xinjing |
2020 | Heart Sutra | Carlos Rojas | 2023 |
Awards and honours
edit- 1997Lu Xun Literary Prize[1]for "Huang Jin Dong" (Hoàng kim động)
- 2001 Lu Xun Literary Prize[1]for "Years Months Days" (Thời đại ngày)
- 2005Yazhou Zhoukan,"The Best Ten Books Award" forDream of Ding Village.[15]
- 2004Lao She Literary Award[1]for:Lenin's Kisses(《 chịu sống 》)
- 2005 Asia Weekly 10 Best Novels award forDream of Ding Village
- 2011Man Asian Literary Prize,Dream of Ding Village,longlist.
- 2014Franz Kafka Prize,winner.[16]
- 2016Man Booker International Prize,The Four Books,shortlist.
- 2016Dream of the Red Chamber Award,The Day the Sun Died,winner.
- 2017Grand Prix of Literary Associations,The Explosion Chronicles,shortlisted in the Belles-Lettres Category.[17]
- 2017Man Booker International Prize,Long listedThe Explosion Chronicles[18]
- 2021 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature[19]
- 2021 Elected aRoyal Society of LiteratureInternational Writer[20]
See also
editReferences
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- ^Cody, Edward (2007-07-09),"Persistent Censorship In China Produces Art of Compromise",Washington Post,archivedfrom the original on 2017-02-26,retrieved2010-04-28
- ^abcFan, Jiayang (2018-10-15)."Yan Lianke's Forbidden Satires of China".The New Yorker.Archivedfrom the original on 2018-11-01.Retrieved2021-04-10.
- ^“Yan Lianke's Forbidden Satires of China” by Jiayang Fan.The New Yorker.October 15, 2018. Vol. 94. Issue 32, 30-36.https:// newyorker /magazine/2018/10/15/yan-liankes-forbidden-satires-of-china
- ^GPLA 2017 Finals:Camer.beArchived2021-04-19 at theWayback Machine
- ^Lianke, Yan. Discovering Fiction. Trans. by Carlos Rojas. Duke University Press, 2022.
- ^Cf. Xie, Haiyan. “Interpreting Mythorealism: Disenchanted Shijing and Spiritual Crisis in Yan Lianke’s Ballad, Hymn, Ode.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2022, pp. 32-65.https:// euppublishing /doi/abs/10.3366/mclc.2022.0004Accessed 9 March 2024.
- ^Lianke, Yan. Discovering Fiction. Trans. by Carlos Rojas. Duke University Press, 2022.
- ^Xie, Haiyan. “Interpreting Mythorealism: Disenchanted Shijing and Spiritual Crisis in Yan Lianke’s Ballad, Hymn, Ode.” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2022, pp. 32-65.
- ^Song, Weijie. “Yan Lianke’s Mythorealist Representation of the Country and the City.” Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 62, No. 4, 2016, pp. 644–58.https:// jstor.org/stable/26421892.Accessed 9 Mar. 2024.
- ^Ibid.
- ^"Yan Lianke".Paper Republic.Archivedfrom the original on 9 June 2016.Retrieved16 June2016.
- ^Shaikh, Ian (May 2, 2008)."and the [censored] was Mao".international.ucla.edu.Archivedfrom the original on 2021-12-19.Retrieved2021-12-18.
- ^"The Explosion Chronicles".Grove Atlantic.Archivedfrom the original on 12 August 2016.Retrieved16 June2016.
- ^"2005 Châu Á tuần san mười rất tốt thư công bố ． chương Hải Lăng".Archivedfrom the original on 2019-06-09.Retrieved2008-09-24.
- ^ČTK (2014-05-26)."Cenu Franze Kafky letos dostane čínský prozaik Jen Lien-kche".České noviny(in Czech).Archivedfrom the original on 2014-05-27.RetrievedMay 27,2014.
- ^"Agravox.fr".6 March 2018.Archivedfrom the original on 2018-04-04.Retrieved2018-04-04.
- ^"The Man Booker International Prize 2017 Longlist Announced | The Booker Prizes".thebookerprizes.Archived fromthe originalon 2019-10-29.
- ^"Yan Lianke wins Newman Prize 2021".31 October 2020.Archivedfrom the original on 12 February 2021.Retrieved26 December2020.
- ^"Inaugural RSL International Writers Announced".Royal Society of Literature.November 30, 2021.Archivedfrom the original on December 25, 2021.RetrievedDecember 25,2021.
External links
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- Yan Lianke at The Susijn Agency
- Yan Lianke at Paper Republic
- Discussion of Two Novels about Blood Selling
- Being Alive is Not Just an Instinct. An interview with Yan Lianke about "Dream of Ding Village"
- The Four Books by Yan Lianke cover art and synopsisat Upcoming4.me
- Chinese novelist Yan Lianke describes quarantine in Beijingwritten by Riccardo Moratto
- An Interview with Yan Liankeby Riccardo Moratto