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Gao Xingjian Quotes
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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture...


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Gao Xingjian Information
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Gao Xingjian (pron. IPA: [káu ɕĭŋ tɕiɛ̂n]; Chinese: 高行健; pinyin: Gāo Xíngjiàn; Wade-Giles: Kao Hsing-chien; born January 4, 1940), is a French Chinese émigré novelist, dramatist and critic, who received the 2000 Nobel Prize in...


News and Journals
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The China Journal
Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater
07/01/2005: 921 words, approx. 3 pages
Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater, by Sy Ren Quah. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2004. x + 225 pp. US$48.00 (hardcover). Gao Xingjian advocates what he calls "cold literature", or creative writing which is personal, solitary and non-utilitarian, a rather detached observation...
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World Literature Today
Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian.
03/22/2002: 564 words, approx. 2 pages
Kwok-kan Tam, ed. Hong Kong Chinese University Press (University of Michigan Press, distr.). 2001. viii + 345 pages $43.50. ISBN 962-201-993-5 UNLIKE V.S. NAIPAUL, the 2001 Nobel laureate in literature, the Chinese prose writer and dramatist Gao Xingjian was virtually unknown in the...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Xiaomei Chen
8,390 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Chen discusses Wildman in terms of both Western and Chinese cultural influences.
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Critical Essay by Yan Haiping
6,013 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following essay, Haiping discusses the theme of posthumanism and the individual in Gao's dramatic works.
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Critical Essay by Harry H. Kuoshu
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In the following essay, Kuoshu compares Bus Stop to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and explores the motif of waiting in both plays in terms of their different cultural contexts.
 


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