Mo Yan has 8 novellas, including "Transparent Carrot", "Explosion", "Your Behavior Frightens Us", "White Cotton", "Building Roads", "Dreams and Bastards", "A Long-distance Running Race Thirty Years Ago" and "The Commander's Woman". It covers all Mo Yan's novellas from the time of his creation to the time when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, showing the artistic styles of different periods. It can help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the rich connotation and volume of Mo Yan's novellas, and provide research materials for scholars and critics. The themes that are often expressed in Mo Yan's long writings are also reflected in his novellas. For example, first love complex, children with special talents, supersensory and synaesthesia, hunger and carnival, "family planning" and college entrance examination, etc. Are all themes that Mo Yan frequently expresses. In the process of repeated expressions, Mo Yan's symbolic meaning is formed, which also reveals Mo Yan's emphasis on life and reflection on the living conditions of human beings in modern society.
