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Contents Biography Works Adaptations Writing Style Awards Retrospect Biography Mo Yan was born in 1955, in Gaomi County in Shandong province to a family of farmers, in Dalan Township. He left school during the Cultural Revolution to work in a factory that produced petroleum. After the Cultural Revolution he joined the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA), and began writing while he was still a soldier, in 1981. Three years later, he was given a teaching position at the Department of Literature in the PLA Academy of Art and Literature, where he published his first novella,novella, A Transparent Radish《 透明的红萝卜 》 (1984). In 1991, he obtained a masters degree in Literature from Beijing Normal University. Novels Falling Rain on a Spring Night 《春夜雨霏霏》(1981) Red Sorghum Clan《红高粱》, including five parts: Sorghum Wine Sorghum Funeral Dog Road The Odd Dead Red Sorghum (1987) The Garlic Ballads 《天堂蒜薹之歌》(1988) The Republic of Wine《酒国》(1992) Big Breasts Wide Hips,《丰乳肥臀》(1996) Sandalwood Death《檀香刑》(2004) Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out ,《生死疲劳》(2006) Frog 《蛙》（2009） Short story collections Explosions and Other Stories《爆炸》 Shifu: Youll Do Anything for a Laugh 《 师傅越来越幽默》(1999) Other published works include White Dog Swing《白狗秋千架》, Man and Beast, Soaring, Iron Child《金发婴儿 》, The Cure, Love Story, Shen Garden and Abandoned Child. ` Adaptations Several of Mo Yans works have been adapted for film: Red Sorghum (1987) (directed by Zhang Yimou,张艺谋，adaptation of Red Sorghum Clan) Happy Times (2000) (directed by Zhang Yimou, adaptation of Shifu: Youll Do Anything for a Laugh) Nuan (2003) (directed by Huo Jianqi, 霍建起，adaptation of White Dog Swing) The Sun Has Ears (1995) (directed by Yim Ho, 严浩，adaptation of Grandma Wearing Red Silk) Writing Style Mo Yans works are predominantly social commentary, and he is strongly influenced by the political critique of Lu Xun and the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Using dazzling, complex, and often graphically violent imag