↑ Shelley W. Chan World Literature Today 2000 p495 "Fin 1987, Mo Yan published Honggaoliang jiazu (Eng. Red Sorghum), a novel set in his Shandong hometown of Northeast Gaomi Township. Relating the story of a peasant family from 1923 to 1976, this first novel is about..."
↑ A Subsersive Voice in China: The Fictional World of Mo Yan 2011 "Mo Yan, The Red Sorghum Family, 2. Translation from Mo Yan, Red Sorghum: A Novel of China, trans. Howard Goldblatt,"
↑ Edward L. Davis Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture 2012 "He first published in 1981 and is best known for his 1986 novel, Red Sorghum (Hong gaoliang), which is a firstperson account of a grandson's visit to his ancestral home and his retelling of its history during the Japanese invasion."
