Anna Sun is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Kenyon College. She has published a collection of short stories in Chinese, The Blue Notebook (2001). A MacDowell Colony fellow in fiction, she has published short fiction in English in Harvard Review, and essay in the London Review of Books. Her scholarly book Confucianism as a World Religion is forthcoming from Princeton University Press in 2013. She serves as a consulting editor for The Kenyon Review.
Fall 2012
The Diseased Language of Mo Yan
“It has often happened in history that a lofty ideal has degenerated into crude materialism. Thus Greece gave way to Rome, and the Russian Enlightenment has become the Russian Revolution. […]