Red Kaoliang is the most famous work of Mo Yan, a Chinese novelist and Nobel Prize winner (2012). According to critics, this prize was awarded to the writer largely thanks to this novel, which was included in the list of the hundred best Chinese novels of the last century. The film “Red Kaoliang,” based on this work, was a huge success all over the world and aroused many Russian viewers’ interest in the history and culture of China. Now, for the first time, the novel itself is being published in Russian, written harshly, even cruelly. This story of “the most daring heroes and the most notorious scoundrels” takes place in Gaomi County, in the author’s small homeland, where a merciless war with the Japanese invaders is raging, flooding everything around with streams of blood, scarlet, like the red kaoliang growing in endless fields...16+