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The Confucius Institute has invited Prof. Zhu Binzhong to give a lecture about Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize Laureate, and his masterpiece, Red Sorghum.
The Confucius Institute has invited Prof. Zhu Binzhong to give a lecture about Mo Yan, a Nobel Prize Laureate, and his masterpiece, Red Sorghum.
Red Sorghum was Mo Yan’s first novel, and one of his best. It consists of the volumes "Red Sorghum", "Sorghum Wine", "Dog Ways", "Sorghum Funeral", and "Strange Death". It tells the story of three generations of a Shandong family from 1923 to 1976. What makes it unique is its terse style, which is characterized by brevity and non-chronological storytelling written in the first-person point of view, and by a skillful blending of folk tales, myth and superstition with a realistic portrayal of the struggling characters and the social milieu in China.
Prof. Zhu’s lecture will reveal more about this novel. Chair of the English Department of Wuhan University, Prof. Zhu is not only an expert on Mo Yan, but also has done extensive research on a wide range of British and American writers, like Henry Fielding, James Joyce and William Faulkner.
- Speaker
- Prof. Zhu Binzhong
- Hosted by
- The Confucius Institute of the University of Aberdeen
- Venue
- Room KCG7, King's College Quad, University of Aberdeen