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China’s front pages go to town on Mo Yan’s Nobel Prize

The face of the first ever winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature who is a Chinese citizen living in China, Mo Yan, is all over the front pages of China’s newspapers today alongside formulaic headlines. Most of the newspapers … Continue reading

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Charles Kao wins the physics Nobel

Charles K. Kao, a scientist of Chinese heritage, makes the front page of many newspapers after winning the Nobel prize in physics.

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Special Olympics close in Shanghai

The headline of today’s Shanghai Youth Daily (青年报) announces that the State Council approved a proposal to construct the Beijing – Shanghai Express Railway (京沪高速铁路)

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Zhu Dake on literature and literary prizes

Cultural critic Zhu Dake (朱大可) talks about online literature and the Nobel Prize (诺贝尔奖).

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Nobel translators who don’t translate, and readers who don’t read

A Nobel Literature series is cobbled together from previous Chinese translations. And readers of Pamuk’s ‘My Name is Red’ complain that tey can’t understand it.

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