Mo Yan. Image by Bengt Nyman via Wikimedia under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. This post was written by Alex Colville and originally published in the China Media Project on March 11, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with the China Media Project. A spat about the patriotism of one of China’s most celebrated writers has been blown out of proportion on the Chinese internet, thanks to harsher nationalist laws and an increasingly rabid cancel culture. One of China’s most celebrated modern authors is in the firing line, and…