After winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, Mo Yan will soon have the honor of having tens of millions of Chinese high school students exposed to his work in textbooks.

The reading textbooks now in use in most Chinese high schools contain only a single article by a contemporary writer — Yu Hua's Leaving Home at Eighteen — and students are, as a result, less familiar than they should be with contemporary Chinese literature, she said.

Some critics said the decision to place Mo's work in the textbook was not made for the right reasons, noting that it only came after he received the Nobel Prize.The Nobel Prize should not be the only criterion used to measure the educational value of teaching materials, but this seems to be how things are done now.

Another concern is that high school students will find it hard to understand Mo's works, which consist mainly of social commentary, critics said.

Besides seeing his work placed in textbooks, Mo can bask in a few other glories stemming from his receipt of the Nobel Prize.

His books have sold out at many bookstores, two of his works are to be translated into Russian and published before the end of the year, and stamps commemorating his achievement have been issued in Shandong province, where Mo was born and now lives.