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Yan Lianke, the Glossary

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Yan Lianke (born August 24, 1958) is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing. His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in some of his most renowned works being banned in China. He has admitted to self-censorship while writing his stories in order to avoid censorship. His novels include Serve the People!, Lenin's Kisses, and Dream of Ding Village.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 36 relations: Albert Camus, Bad faith, Beijing, Carlos Rojas (sinologist), Cultural Revolution, Dream of Ding Village, Dream of the Red Chamber Award, Franz Kafka Prize, Grand Prix of Literary Associations, Heart Sutra, Henan, Henan University, HIV/AIDS, Hu Jia (activist), International Booker Prize, Julia Lovell, Kink (sexuality), Lao She Literary Award, Lenin's Kisses, Lu Xun Literary Prize, Man Asian Literary Prize, Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong's cult of personality, Plasma Economy, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Royal Society of Literature, Serve the People, Serve the People!, Song County, The Day the Sun Died, The New Yorker, The Plague (novel), Weiquan movement, Yan (surname), Yazhou Zhoukan, Zhang Side.

  2. 21st-century Chinese short story writers
  3. Henan University alumni
  4. Short story writers from Henan
  5. Writers from Luoyang

Albert Camus

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist.

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Bad faith

Bad faith (Latin: mala fides) is a sustained form of deception which consists of entertaining or pretending to entertain one set of feelings while acting as if influenced by another.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Carlos Rojas (sinologist)

Carlos Rojas (born 1970 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American sinologist and translator.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Dream of Ding Village

Dream of Ding Village is a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke.

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Dream of the Red Chamber Award

The Dream of the Red Chamber Award: The World's Distinguished Novel in Chinese (紅樓夢獎:世界華文長篇小說獎) is a biennial novel prize presented by Hong Kong Baptist University recognizing Chinese language fiction published both within China, and also internationally.

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Franz Kafka Prize

The Franz Kafka Prize is an international literary award presented in honour of Franz Kafka, the Jewish, Bohemian, German-language novelist.

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Grand Prix of Literary Associations

The Grand Prix of Literary Associations (GPLA) were launched in 2013 in Cameroon, in partnership with Brasseries du Cameroun and sponsorship by Castel Beer.

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Heart Sutra

The Heart Sūtra is a popular sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism.

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Henan

Henan is an inland province of China.

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Henan University

Henan University (HENU) is a provincial public university in Zhengzhou and Kaifeng, Henan, China.

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HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.

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Hu Jia (activist)

Hu Jia (born July 25, 1973) is a Chinese civil rights activist and noted critic of the Chinese Communist Party.

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International Booker Prize

The International Booker Prize (formerly known as the Man Booker International Prize) is an international literary award hosted in the United Kingdom.

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Julia Lovell

Julia Lovell (born 1975) is a British scholar and prize-winning author and translator focusing on China.

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Kink (sexuality)

In human sexuality, kinkiness is the use of non-conventional sexual practices, concepts or fantasies.

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Lao She Literary Award

The Lao She Literary Award (Lao She wenxue jiang 老舍文学奖) is named after the Chinese novelist Lao She, a writer and activist of 20th-century Chinese literature.

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Lenin's Kisses

Lenin's Kisses is a novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke, published in 2004.

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Lu Xun Literary Prize

The Lu Xun Literary Prize (or Lu Xun Literature Prize) 鲁迅文学奖 is a literary prize awarded by China Writers Association.

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Man Asian Literary Prize

The Man Asian Literary Prize was an annual literary award between 2007 and 2012, given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year.

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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Yan Lianke and Mao Zedong are 20th-century Chinese male writers.

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Mao Zedong's cult of personality

Mao Zedong's cult of personality was a prominent part of Chairman Mao Zedong's rule over the People's Republic of China from the state's founding in 1949 until his death in 1976.

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Plasma Economy

Plasma Economy was a 1991–1995 plasmapheresis campaign by the Henan provincial government in China, in which blood plasma was extracted in exchange for money.

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong (formerly romanized as Mao Tse-tung), the former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, published from 1964 to 1979 and widely distributed during the Cultural Revolution.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Serve the People

"Serve the People" is a political slogan and the motto of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Serve the People!

Serve the People! (为人民服务) is a 2005 novel by Yan Lianke.

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Song County

Song County or Songxian is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Luoyang, in the west of Henan Province, China.

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The Day the Sun Died

The Day the Sun Died is a 2015 novel by Yan Lianke, published in Taiwan.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Plague (novel)

The Plague (La Peste) is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus.

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Weiquan movement

The Weiquan movement is a non-centralized group of lawyers, legal experts, and intellectuals in China who seek to protect and defend the civil rights of the citizenry through litigation and legal activism.

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Yan (surname)

Yan is a surname in several languages and the pinyin romanization for several Chinese surnames, including "严 (嚴)", "晏 (晏)", "偃 (偃)", "颜 (顏)", "言 (言)", "燕 (燕)", "阎 (閻)", "闫 (閆)", "鄢 (鄢)" in simplified (traditional) form.

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Yazhou Zhoukan

Yazhou Zhoukan is a Chinese-language international affairs newsweekly.

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Zhang Side

Zhang Side (April 19, 1915 – September 5, 1944) was a Chinese Communist soldier and guard for Mao Zedong.

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See also

21st-century Chinese short story writers

Henan University alumni

Short story writers from Henan

Writers from Luoyang

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Lianke

Also known as Jen Lien-kche.