In the Global Times Chen Chenchen states the obvious in noting that Vandals to Mo Yan's house not true fans of literature, as:
What really surprises me, however, is that Mo and his relatives haven't set up shop (or at least a stand) nearby and offered Mo-morabilia (including radishes from the garden) for sale -- at a nice mark-up .....
It sounds incredible that the Chinese would honor a literary guru by stealing radishes from his garden and pulling the bricks out of the walls of his home. But this did happen to Mo Yan, the first writer residing in China to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.It's unclear whether Elfriede Jelinek (et al.) have similar problems in their gardens and houses; still, it does seem rather ... excessive.
What really surprises me, however, is that Mo and his relatives haven't set up shop (or at least a stand) nearby and offered Mo-morabilia (including radishes from the garden) for sale -- at a nice mark-up .....