Nobel prize helps world know Chinese literature: HK scholars
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Mo Yan, the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was hailed by scholars in Hong Kong with comments that his success largely improves the status of the contemporary Chinese literature in the world.
Mo Yan won the Nobel prize with his works that are said to be "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary", and this will definitely have a positive impact on the entire Chinese literary circle, both in terms of readership and from the perspective of creative art, said Isaac Yue, Associate Dean of Arts of the University of Hong Kong.
The fact that more people are vying for Mo Yan's books will "help the new generation to take deep and great interest in literature," he said in an interview with Xinhua on Friday.
Si Chungmou, professor and head of the School of Chinese with the University of Hong Kong, said the newest Nobel literature laureate will also help Westerners pay attention to the Chinese way of thinking and behaving while maintaining their strong interest in China's economic growth.
Mo Yan's Nobel prize testifies the achievement of the effort to help Chinese culture "go out" to readers in the rest of the world as his works "display Chinese people's life, unique Chinese culture and ethnic customs."
"Westerners can take this opportunity to know something about Chinese culture while the Chinese can seize this opportunity to better communicate with the outside world," Si said.
The zeal for Mo Yan's books, shown by the fast selling both on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong since he was awarded the prize, may cool down one day, but it will certainly serve as a kind of "positive energy" to prompt more people to read books and enjoy reading, the professor said.
Before clinching the Nobel title, Mo Yan had won a series of prizes, including the award named after the Chinese classic literature A Dream of Red Mansions.
Xu Zidong, dean of the Chinese Department the Hong Kong Lingnan University, was the chairman of the judging panel back then. He predicted earlier this year that Mo Yan would become this year's Nobel literature laureate.
"Mo Yan's works embody the Chinese writing style and Chinese traditional culture, and his style is similar to Garcia Marquez's magical realism style, and are thus received by Western readers," Xu told Xinhua. Endi
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