Gao Xingjian is a novelist, translator, dramatist, director, critic and artist. Equal to his literary oeuvre, his paintings are works of art with a level of originality. By epitomising the…

Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in Literature. The Swedish Academy summarized his achievements as follows: An oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has…

When Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, he became the only Chinese writer to achieve such international acclaim. The Chinese University Press is the first publisher…

In the same circling, ruminative vein as his Nobel Prize-winning debut novel Soul Mountain, Chinese expatriate Xingjian’s fictionalized memoir of his youth is an attempt to capture the Kafkaesque anxieties…

This work provides an in-depth analysis of the literary, dramatic, intellectual and technical aspects of Gao Xingjian’s plays and theatrical concepts, treating Gao’s theatre not only as an art form…

This book argues that Gao Xingjian’s Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions.