A controversy has broken out in China over the winners of one of the country’s most prestigious literary awards, the Mao Dun Awards. As a China Daily story reports, “some critics” have charged that two of the winners this year “fail to meet the standards of the Mao Dun Award.” The books in question are The Era of Heroes and The Sky of History. What’s more, at least one of the authors has admitted the critics may have a point. The report says Era of Heroes author Lieu Jianwei “is the first to admit that some parts of his book need further attention.”