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Don't Write Off the Mao Dun Literature Prize: https://chinabooksreview.com/2024/10/31/mao-dun-prize/ "Never mind the Booker, Pulitzer and National Book Award — China’s Mao Dun Prize, despite its behind-the-times reputation, can shift the reading habits of a billion people."
Interesting article. One wonders where Chinese avant-garde literature--literature that's not commercially viable but also not to the taste of the Mao Dun prize committee--is published these days. It's also interesting to learn that the Mao Dun prize is a post 改革开放 (reform and opening) award. I had just assumed it had existed since the Mao era.
Yeah that was the most interesting part of the article to me, that this award is keeping alive a certain kind of literary fiction that might otherwise die out