MCLC: Mo Yan acceptance speech (1)

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Mo Yan acceptance speech (1)
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Mo Yan says: "But Mother, who had bound feet, could not run; she was
caught and slapped so hard by the watchman, a hulk of a man, that she fell
to the ground."


I thought poor illiterate peasant women working in the fields did not have
bound feet, otherwise they wouldn't be able to work hard?

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