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📖 Mo Yan After the Nobel: Literature, Identity, and Cultural Responsibility (诺奖之后的莫言) (in Chinese)
📅 Date: Saturday, September 27, 2025
🕗 Time: 8:00 – 9:30 PM ET (Sunday, September 28 · 8:00 – 9:30 AM Beijing Time)
📍 Location: Online (through Zoom)
🌐 Organizer: Renwen Society at China Institute
🎟️ Registration: Free with RSVP
🏷️ Description:
What does it mean to be a writer after winning the Nobel Prize? This special lecture by Dr. Pan Geng, a student of Mo Yan and expert on his work, explores how China’s first Nobel laureate in literature has continued to evolve as a cultural figure.
The talk will highlight Mo Yan’s transition from novelist to playwright, his contributions to Chinese stage arts, and his ongoing literary and social engagement through poetry, calligraphy, new media platforms, and philanthropy.
Through these lenses, Dr. Pan presents a multifaceted portrait of Mo Yan—not only as an author, but also as a public intellectual, cultural custodian, and socially engaged literary figure in contemporary China.
🗣️ Speaker:
Dr. Pan Geng (潘耕) – Associate Professor at Beijing City University and visiting scholar at Columbia University. Author of Drama Within the Novel: On Mo Yan’s Fiction and Theatre and screenwriter for Red Sorghum (TV series).
📺 This event will be held virtually and conducted in Chinese.
📚 Topics: Mo Yan, Chinese Literature, Nobel Prize, Contemporary Writers, Theatre, Cultural Identity, Social Responsibility, Modern Chinese Culture