Beauty and Ugliness: Paradox of Aesthetics in MO Yan's Sandalwood Death

MO Yan builds a spiritual home,Gaomi,in Sandalwood Death,to which he applies beautiful-ugly aesthetics.With his broad knowledge and a good command of native folk culture in Gaomi,he pursues history,beauty and ugliness in human nature.He breaks the boundaries between beauty and ugliness,offers a wonderful dual paradox of folk appreciation different from the consciousness of elite and mainstream discourse.