Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik wri…

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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. ✨ Literary Feuds of 2012 by Rachel Arons, www.newyorker.com. December 30, 2012.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. ✨ Literary Feuds of 2012 by Rachel Arons, www.newyorker.com. December 30, 2012.

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