Chinese city seeks to cash in on Nobel win

A Chinese city hopes to cash in on the success of its most famous resident, Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan, by investing millions in a tourist zone dedicated to the writer, Chinese media said Thursday.

Gaomi, a city in eastern China's Shandong province, will invest $107 million in projects to honour Mo Yan, who has set most of his gritty stories of Chinese peasant life in the area, the Beijing News reported.

The city will build a "Mo Yan Culture Experience Zone", and plant 650 hectares (1,600 acres) of red sorghum, a type of grain.

"Red Sorghum" is the title of the author's best-known work, a 1987 novella set amid the...

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Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He has become the focus of a lot of attention. His books are selling out and the government is planning to create a tourist spot that is dedicated to his work. What do you think a Haruki Murakami Theme Park would be like?