Jerry Xie

Hard Core: Shelley Chan's "Not Uncritical" Mo Yan Thought (Part One of Three)

[First paragraph] Despite its high price ($104 hardback, $55 ebook), Shelley Chan's scholarly commentary on Mo Yan in her Subversive Voice is quite an important work. It is, in its own way - from Chan's ideological position - considerably insightful for anyone seriously studying Mo's writings. In Lenin's red pedagogy of critique, her text is important becaus