{"id":6450,"date":"2012-10-24T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2012-10-24T00:03:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T04:03:27","slug":"how-china-treats-approved-nobel-prize-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-china-treats-approved-nobel-prize-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"How China Treats (Approved) Nobel Prize Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102212_0234_HowChinaTre1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mo Yan became the first resident of mainland China to win the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mo_Yan\">Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a>. Malcolm Moore discussed the way that people in China have responded to his success:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Local officials told the author&#8217;s father that whether &#8220;you agree or not&#8221; his son was no longer just his son; rather, he now belonged to the rest of China.<\/li>\n<li>The government is planning to build a &#8220;Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone&#8221; with Mo Yan&#8217;s house as the center piece.<\/li>\n<li>Chinese tourists from around the country have come to Mo Yan&#8217;s county. Some have picked vegetables from the area and plan to feed it to their children so that they, too, can go on to win a Nobel Prize.<\/li>\n<li>Mo Yan himself has seemed somewhat ambivalent to the fame. When asked if he was happy he responded that he didn&#8217;t know.<\/li>\n<li>The author wanted to use the \u00a3750,000 prize money to buy a big home for himself, but later realized that property prices were so high in China, he could barely afford a two bedroom apartment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about China&#8217;s reaction to the prize over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/china\/9617803\/China-to-spend-70-million-sprucing-up-Nobel-Prize-winners-hometown.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/china\/9617803\/China-to-spend-70-million-sprucing-up-Nobel-Prize-winners-hometown.html\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/10\/the-marketing-of-mo-yan.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mo Yan became the first resident of mainland China to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Malcolm Moore discussed the way that people in China have responded to his success: Local officials told the author&#8217;s father that whether &#8220;you agree or not&#8221; his son was no longer just his son; rather, he now belonged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/102212_0234_HowChinaTre1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6480,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/6480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}