Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780824826291
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: from c 1900 -; Theatre, drama; Performing Arts; Drama; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Chinese; Performing Arts/Dance; Theater - History & Criticism; Asian - Chinese; Criticism and interpretation; China; Gao, Xingjian; Theater
Description: "A reclusive painter living on exile in Paris, Gao Xingjian found himself instantly famous when he became the first Chinese-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (2000). The author of the novel Soul Mountain, Gao is best known in his native country, not as a visual artist or novelist but as a playwright and theater director. This important yet rarely studied figure is the focus of Sy Ren Quah's account appraising his contributions to contemporary Chinese and world theater over the past two decades."--BOOK JACKET.