introductionjiang lin and li yan .........................................................................iprefacejiang lin ........................................................................................ iiimo yan and the chinese mindli jingze ..........................................................................................1originality and transcendence: what mo yan hasenlightened usguo jie ..........................................................................................11hallucination, localization and folk narrativetradition: mo yan and literary criticismcheng guangwei ..........................................................................24folkness and literature: e chinese experience in moyan’s narrativeszhang ning ...................................................................................52mnemonics: intergenerational metaphor, ideologicalfantasy and memory field: a reading of mo yan’s etransparent carrotwang min ......................................................................................82childhood narrative: the richness of meanings inreinterpretation of mo yan’s e transparent carrotwang yusong ................................................................................98viiisamsara, violence and satire: a discussion of the absurdnarration in mo yan’s life and death are wearing me outwu yaozong ................................................................................114the carnivalesque narrative of the devil dance: moyan’s narrative characteristics in red sorghum clanding guoxing and chen haiquan ..............................................138the historical image and the history of the image: adiscussion of gains and losses in mo yan’s red sorghum clanjiang chun ..................................................................................154is big breasts and wide hips an “almost reactionarywork”? : comments on the conceptions and methodsof mr. he guorui’s literary criticismyi zhuxian and chen guo’en ......................................................172 e fact and fable in e republic of wine: about moyan’s narrative strategieszhou yingxiong ..........................................................................186elegy of history and the swan song of life: a discussionof mo yan’s new novel sandalwood deathhan chen ....................................................................................199“biopolitics” and historical writing: a discussion ofmo yan’s frogli songrui ...................................................................................219mo yan and william faulkner: construction and interpretationof folk mythologyli yingfeng ..................................................................................235notes on contributors ................................................................247notes on translators ..................................................................252appendix: partial lists of mo yan’s works in bothchinese and english ...............................................................254