Episode 2808: SELECTED STORIES by Xue Mo - a podcast by Ric Bratton
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SELECTED STORIES by Xue Mo
Selected Stories by Xue Mo is a collection of short tales set on the ancient Silk Road, exploring love, hope, faith, life and death. The first three tales depict the lives and relationships of outsiders in rural villages, offering a contemporary perspective on the impact of rumour, pain and suffering.
The last novella tells a gripping story of two sisters-in-law crossing the desert by camel to find hope, seek freedom and pursue dreams. These tales serve as a perfect introduction to Xue Mo’s literary works.
Translated into over two dozen languages, namely English, French, German, Korean, and Swedish, this book has been praised for its universal appeal.
Its English version was translated by Nicky Harman,a prize-winning British sinologist and translator, with the Guardian newspaper including one of its stories Old Man Xinjiang, in their collection of five top short stories from contemporary China. In 2022, its Sinhala version was awarded the National Literature Award in Sri Lanka.
Xue Mo, previously known as Chen Kaihong, was born in Wuwei, Gansu province. He is a celebrated cultural scholar, contemporary Chinese writer, Vice-Chairman of the Gansu Writers’ Association, Dean of the Guangzhou Research Institute for Shangpa Culture, and a humanities tutor at Fudan University. Xue Mo’s writing is heavily influenced by his hometown in western China and embodies the essence of traditional Chinese culture. His writing style perfectly blends hallucinatory realism with minute descriptions of rural life in China and the inner worlds of Chinese people. He employs various literary forms, such as short stories, novels, poems, and prose essays, and his work explores themes such as love, freedom, life and death, and humanity ’s relationship with nature. His works have received critical acclaim, enjoyed extensive media coverage at home and abroad, and are considered seminal 5 literature from China’s western regions. During the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2022, Xue Mo ranked No.1 in the list of top topics in international media, outshining even the Spanish Guest of Honor and becoming the most talked-about figure. More than 2,000 media outlets, such as The Associated Press and PR Newswire, covered “Xue Mo” and his works. According to a statistical analysis of media presence conducted by Meltwater, the top10 print and online media coverage related to “Xue Mo” potentially reached over 1 billion people.
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