https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/tags/mo-yan/Recent content in Mo Yan on Lynx Tech BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioenSun, 09 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/moyan-zhihu-371-answers/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/moyan-zhihu-371-answers/<img src="https://blog.lynxflow.co/images/moyan-zhihu-371-answers.png?v=090500" alt="Featured image of post Dissecting 371 Zhihu Answers: How Public Opinion Around "350,000 Yuan to Investigate Mo Yan's Family Background" Was Ignited" />This Is the Second Half of the Previous Piece A couple of days ago I wrote “350,000 Yuan Over Six Years: How Should We Judge the Cost of Studying Mo Yan?”. That one was an opinion piece. After publishing it, I felt uneasy: opinions are one thing, but were the facts complete? What exactly were all those people arguing about in the comments? So over the past two days I did some grunt work: I dug through the project’s background in detail, then scraped 371 answers under that Zhihu question out of ahttps://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/moyan-research-35wan/Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:22:00 +0800https://blog.lynxflow.co/en/posts/moyan-research-35wan/<img src="https://blog.lynxflow.co/images/moyan-research-35wan.png" alt="Featured image of post 350,000 Yuan over Six Years: How Should We Assess the Cost of Studying Mo Yan?" />A Hot-Search-Style Argument Something has been making quite a stir lately: a key project funded by the National Social Science Fund of China, led by a professor at Renmin University—350,000 yuan over six years to study Mo Yan—has been branded by many as “a waste of taxpayers’ money.” To be honest, my first reaction was irritation too: what kind of amount is 350,000 yuan, really? Why single out one academic project and call it wasteful? “If we’re talking about waste, the state is the real culprit