Monday, October 22, 2012

"Shut-up": literally meaning of the name of the 2012 winner of Nobel Prize in Literature


Chinese writer Mo Yan won 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ironically, his pen-name "Mo Yan" literally means "Don't say" "No Speaking" "Stop talking" or "Shut-up". This might be the ironical reality of China: No one could be free to talk.

Some Chinese netizens drew the cartoons about Mo Yan's prize-winning:

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