On October 11 Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, announced that the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2012 will go to the fifty-seven-year-old Chinese writer Guan Moye, better known as Mo Yan, a pen name that means “don’t talk.” (The name is said to have originated in advice his parents gave him as a school-age boy during the Mao era.)The news
The new season of Chinese documentary series Century Master, which aims to pay tribute to Chinese experts in various fields, will feature those people who have greatly contributed to China s sports development such as Zhang Boling, Ma Yuehan and Dong Shouyi and great educators like Cai Yuanpei, Huang Yanpei and Tao Xingzhi, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and China Literature and Art Foundation announced on Saturday.
China's indoctrination in state elementary schools (and beyond) is a worthy subject of study, and was recently explored in a three-part series looking at Chinese history books.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong's talk at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art in May 1942, the National Theatre of China promoted its new documentary drama, Literature and Art in the War of Resistance, during a news conference held in Beijing recently.