{"id":62591,"date":"2024-03-16T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/16\/china-nobel-prize-winner-tarred-as-one-of-three-new-evils-amid-rise-in-nationalist-fervour"},"modified":"2024-03-16T04:00:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T19:00:43","slug":"china-nobel-prize-winner-tarred-as-one-of-three-new-evils-amid-rise-in-nationalist-fervour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62591","title":{"rendered":"China Nobel prize winner tarred as one of \u2018three new evils\u2019 amid rise in nationalist fervour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere online<\/p>\n<p>At first glance, a Nobel prize winning author, a bottle of green tea and Beijing\u2019s Tsinghua University have little in common. But in recent weeks they have been dubbed by China\u2019s nationalist netizens as the \u201cthree new evils\u201d in the fight to defend the country\u2019s valour in cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p>Last month a patriotic blogger called Wu Wanzheng filed a lawsuit against China\u2019s only Nobel prize-winning author, Mo Yan, accusing him of smearing the Communist army and glorifying Japanese soldiers in his fictional works set during the Japanese invasion of China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/16\/china-nobel-prize-winner-tarred-as-one-of-three-new-evils-amid-rise-in-nationalist-fervour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mo Yan is widely celebrated in China but now faces a lawsuit accusing him of smearing the Communist party amid an increasingly febrile atmosphere onlineAt first glance, a Nobel prize winning author, a bottle of green tea and Beijing\u2019s Tsinghua Universi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-internet"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62592,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62591\/revisions\/62592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}