During the Cultural Revolution, university entrance examinations were suspended, and even those who made it as far as secondary school received little in the way of education. Nor were such experiences limited to those born in the remote countryside. To be sure, such things are seldom seen in today's China, but they were by no means unusual in rural China in the 1960s. No sooner had he completed elementary school than he was obliged to leave school and begin work herding cattle and sheep. Mo Yan spoke at length of the poverty, hunger, and solitude that cast a shadow over his early years.
Much of the speech was devoted to recollections of his childhood in the county of Gaomi, Shandong Province, a rural community that appears in his fiction as Northeast Gaomi Township.
Chinese novelist Mo Yan (1955–), winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, delivered a Nobel lecture titled "Storytellers" at the Swedish Academy last December.
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