Mo Yan

After a wave of criticism online, administrators said they would replace a plaque bearing an inscription by the 2012 Nobel laureate in Literature.

The Nobel literary laureate’s latest novel focuses on the narrator’s aunt, an obstetrician who switches to an abortionist enforcing China’s one-child policy.

The novelist and Nobel laureate Mo Yan depicts the horrors of China’s one-child policy.

Linking the offline identities of authors with their online writings, new guidelines say, will encourage writers to “better take responsibility” for their works and bolster “moral education and training.”

In “Coming Home,” Zhang Yimou examines China’s troubled political past and suggests how to deal with it today. With his legendary muse, Gong Li, playing the central character, the film represents a return to form for the director.

The novels “Sandalwood Death” and “Pow!,” by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, combine literary imagination with a peasant spirit.

Meat plays an outsize role in the demented behavior in Mo Yan’s novel “Pow!”

Mo Yan's silence on Chinese politics provoked a debate that at times turned Orwellian.

The novelist Mo Yan was due to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature on Monday, a selection acidly assailed by fellow writers and poets in China. And while some applauded the award, Herta Müller, the 2009 Nobel laureate, called Mr. Mo’s selection “a catastrophe” because of his failure to condemn state censorship in China.

The Nobel honoree for literature is a Chinese novelist who has learned to keep his voice low.