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While the museum is temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 prevention measures, people can still access the exhibition online as a virtual tour. Landscape paintings by Wen Lipeng, Wen Yiduo s son.The exhibition sheds light on Wen Yiduo s talent as an artist and designer, an aspect important to his life, and yet, less well-known to the public.
The awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature to the Chinese novelist Mo Yan has given rise to energetic debate, both within China’s borders and beyond. Earlier this month, ChinaFile ran an essay by Chinese literature scholar Charles Laughlin called “What Mo Yan’s Detractors Get Wrong.” That essay was, in large part, a critical response to an earlier piece in The New York
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When Chinese novelist Mo Yan accepted the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this week, the relationship between literature and politics attracted much attention. The award is often given to writers who forcefully oppose political repression. When authors are from countries recently embroiled in political strife, or there are repressive dictatorships or socialist regimes involved, sometimes the artistic aspects of an author’s work receive less attention than they would for more famous authors. Even authors from stable, economically advanced countries are sometimes honored by the Prize as much for representing a new, repressed, or marginalized voice as for their literary achievements, leading many observers to conclude that the Nobel Literature Prize is “political.” It is very rare for the prize to be given to a citizen of a Communist country in good standing with his government; I believe Mo Yan is only the second, after the Soviet novelist Mikhail Sholokhov in 1965.
At the end of a rollicking production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Tim Robbins and staged in China in June by the Los Angeles-based Actors’ Gang the director and actors returned to the stage for a dialogue with the Beijing audience. The questions ran the normal gamut from accents to costumes to staging, and then one woman asked which Shakespeare the Gang planned to perform next. The affable Robbins turned the question around, asking what she would like to see. “Macbeth,” came the answer. Oberon (played by Pierre Adeli) in a performace of A Midsummer Night s Dream, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, June 10, 2014.