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Recent international literary awards have shown the world a different side of China. In 2012, Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for literature and in August 2015 Liu Cixin won theHugo Award for his science novel The Three-Body Problem. The latter has become so popular that the venue for his speech "The Future of ChinaThrough Chinese Science Fiction" at the University of Sydney on Nov 3 has had to be movedto a larger auditorium. However, in China, literary awards have become the subject of an anti-corruption drive. (more…)
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