After keeping a low profile since he was crowned Nobel laureate in literature in December, Mo Yan is ready to face the media.

Last week, Mo Yan rejoined public events as chair of the International Writing Center under Beijing Normal University, and joined artist Fan Zeng for a conversation with physicist C.N. Yang on "literature meeting sciences", where he spoke in front of hundreds of people at Peking University.

"Let the trial on me begin," Mo Yan joked during an interview at BNU, where he obtained a master's degree in 1991.