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Zhou Xiaotian, a poet and professor, won China's prestigious Lu Xun Literature Prize in August. The award brought him fire instead of applause with some denouncing the honor as a "shame on poetry."

Not long after the announcement, Zhou's verses were posted online by Internet users with the charge of being "nothing more than doggerels unworthy of the prize."

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