title: Soul Mountain
The Bus Stop
The Other Shore
Mabel Lee
Gao Xingjian
Henry James
The Henry James Review
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather
One Man's Bible
Julie Rivkin
sentences: Soul Mountain is a novel by Gao Xingjian.
 The novel is loosely based on the author's own journey into rural China, which was inspired by a false diagnosis of lung cancer.
 The novel is a part autobiographical, part fictional account of a man's journey to find the fabled mountain Lingshan.
 It is a combination of story fragments, travel accounts, unnamed characters (referred to by the pronouns "I", "you", "she", etc.), and folk poetry/legends.
 An English version translated by Mabel Lee was published in the United States on December 5, 2000.
The Bus Stop is a Chinese absurdist play written in 1981 by Gao Xingjian.
 Though originally completed in 1981, a second draft wasn't completed until 1982, and the play was not performed on stage until 1983.
 The play premiered at the Beijing People's Art Theatre and was directed by Lin Zhaohua, the Deputy Director of the People's Art Theatre.
 Though appreciated by many audiences, the original run was shut down by the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign after only 13 performances.
 Now banned from performance in mainland China, "The Bus Stop" remains an influential text in Chinese absurdist drama.
The Other Shore (; untoned "Bi An"; previously translated The Other Side) is a play by the Chinese writer Gao Xingjian.
 It was first published into English in 1997 and translated again in 1999.
Mabel Lee is a translator of the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian.
 She has taught Asian studies at the University of Sydney and is one of Australia's leading authorities on Chinese cultural affairs.
 Lee was a professor of South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University and had already begun translation of the poems of Chinese writer, Yang Lian when she met Gao Xingjian, in Paris in 1991.
 After that meeting, Lee offered to translate "Soul Mountain", a project which took seven years, and an additional two to find a publisher for the book in Australia.
 Following publication, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.”
 He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
 In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship.
Henry James, OM ((1843--)15 1843 – (1916--)28 1916 ) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
 He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
The Henry James Review is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1979 and is the official publication of the Henry James Society.
 It is dedicated to the scholarly, critical, and theoretical study of the American writer Henry James.
 Each issue focuses on a specific theme of interest and seeks to promote understanding and study of James' contributions.
 The journal is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and the current editor-in-chief is Susan M. Griffin (University of Louisville).
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, also rendered from Chinese as A Fishing Rod for My Grandpa, is a 2004 collection of six short stories by the Chinese writer Gao Xingjian.
 All of the stories were originally written between 1983 and 1990.
 The stories were translated to English by Mabel Lee.
One Man's Bible (S: 一个人的圣经, T: 一個人的聖經, P: "Yī gè rén de Shèngjīng", French: Le Livre d'un homme seul) is a novel by Gao Xingjian.
 Mabel Lee created the English translation.
 The book stars an alter-ego of Gao who reflects on his previous experiences around the world.
 Éditions de l'Aube published the book in French.
Julie H. Rivkin (born 1952) is an American literary critic and professor of English at Connecticut College since 1982.
 She is best known for her publications on literary theory and Henry James, and has published several works on both subjects.
 Rivkin received her B.A. and PhD from Yale University and is currently the Associate Dean of Faculty at Connecticut College, a member of the Modern Language Association, and Vice President of the Henry James Society.
 Her other specializations include American literature and gender studies (publisher of the "Henry James Review").

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 Soul Mountain is a novel by Gao Xingjian.
 The novel is loosely based on the author's own journey into rural China, which was inspired by a false diagnosis of lung cancer.
 The novel is a part autobiographical, part fictional account of a man's journey to find the fabled mountain Lingshan.
 It is a combination of story fragments, travel accounts, unnamed characters (referred to by the pronouns "I", "you", "she", etc.), and folk poetry/legends.
 An English version translated by Mabel Lee was published in the United States on December 5, 2000. 

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 The Bus Stop is a Chinese absurdist play written in 1981 by Gao Xingjian.
 Though originally completed in 1981, a second draft wasn't completed until 1982, and the play was not performed on stage until 1983.
 The play premiered at the Beijing People's Art Theatre and was directed by Lin Zhaohua, the Deputy Director of the People's Art Theatre.
 Though appreciated by many audiences, the original run was shut down by the Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign after only 13 performances.
 Now banned from performance in mainland China, "The Bus Stop" remains an influential text in Chinese absurdist drama. 

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 Mabel Lee is a translator of the works of Nobel Prize-winning author Gao Xingjian.
 She has taught Asian studies at the University of Sydney and is one of Australia's leading authorities on Chinese cultural affairs.
 Lee was a professor of South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University and had already begun translation of the poems of Chinese writer, Yang Lian when she met Gao Xingjian, in Paris in 1991.
 After that meeting, Lee offered to translate "Soul Mountain", a project which took seven years, and an additional two to find a publisher for the book in Australia.
 Following publication, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. 

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 Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity.”
 He is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.
 In 1998, Gao was granted French citizenship. 

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 Henry James, OM ((1843--)15 1843 – (1916--)28 1916 ) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
 He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. 

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 The Henry James Review is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1979 and is the official publication of the Henry James Society.
 It is dedicated to the scholarly, critical, and theoretical study of the American writer Henry James.
 Each issue focuses on a specific theme of interest and seeks to promote understanding and study of James' contributions.
 The journal is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press and the current editor-in-chief is Susan M. Griffin (University of Louisville). 

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 One Man's Bible (S: 一个人的圣经, T: 一個人的聖經, P: "Yī gè rén de Shèngjīng", French: Le Livre d'un homme seul) is a novel by Gao Xingjian.
 Mabel Lee created the English translation.
 The book stars an alter-ego of Gao who reflects on his previous experiences around the world.
 Éditions de l'Aube published the book in French. 

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 Julie H. Rivkin (born 1952) is an American literary critic and professor of English at Connecticut College since 1982.
 She is best known for her publications on literary theory and Henry James, and has published several works on both subjects.
 Rivkin received her B.A. and PhD from Yale University and is currently the Associate Dean of Faculty at Connecticut College, a member of the Modern Language Association, and Vice President of the Henry James Society.
 Her other specializations include American literature and gender studies (publisher of the "Henry James Review"). 

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Answer: yes