On Tuesday, Fan Hui, a local official, paid a visit to Mr Mo’s father to ask him to renovate the family home.
“Your son is no longer your son, and the house is no longer your house,” urged Mr Fan, according to the Beijing News, explaining that the author was now the pride of China. “It does not really matter if you agree or not,” he added.
Mr Fan has earmarked the family home as the main attraction of the “Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone”, but also has plans to create a theme park based on Mr Mo’s 1987 work, Red Sorghum.
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Strange country. And I still don’t know which book by Mo Yan to read: http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-mo-yan-poll/
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RT @cblatts: Winning the Nobel in the absolutist state http://t.co/jA6o1pMG
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