Volume 42, Number 16 · October 19, 1995
It Was Yang Mo
By Jonathan D. Spence
In response to In China's Gulag
(August 10, 1995)
In my review "In China's Gulag" [NYR, August 10] I mistakenly wrote that the mother of the author Ma Bo was the novelist Mo Yan. Ma Bo's mother is in fact the novelist Yang Mo. My apologies to those concerned.
Jonathan Spence
New Haven, Connecticut