Mo Yan’s Talk in Columbia University Yesterday

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莫言：忽略人物阶级性的作品才能走向世界. VOA Chinese, Nov 8, 2014
www.voachinese.com/content/moyan-20141107/2512821.html
(“莫言星期五 [Nov 7] 在纽约哥伦比亚大学发表演讲 * * * 刚参加了中国国家主席模仿1942年在延安的毛泽东而举行的文艺座谈的莫言”)

My comment:
(a) I can not find a transcript (in Chinese or English).
(b) The Columbia announcement:

Mo Yan and Chinese Literature. World Leaders Forum, Columbia University, Nov 6, 2014 (announcement date according to Google)
events.columbia.edu/event/mo-yan-and-chinese-literature-74998
(c) VOA Chinese states, “纽约时报11月5日《历史轮回：两个文艺座谈会》一文说，周小平在其博客中独家透露，习近平在会上说，‘文艺作品不能以追求到国外获奖为目的，抱着这种目的去创作是没有前途的……。’  这些话被坊间解读为‘不点名批评’与会的诺贝尔文学奖得主莫言。”

The essay is written in Chinese, not in English. 章立凡, 历史轮回：两个文艺座谈会. 纽约时报中文网, Nov 5, 2014.
cn.nytimes.com/china/20141105/cc05zhanglifan/