About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Chinese drama, Chinese dramatists and playwrights, Chinese plays, Performing arts venues in China, Theatre companies in China, Theatres in China, Lao She, Gao Xingjian, Shadow play, Cao Yu, Romance of the West Chamber, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Theatre of China, Han Lao Da, Circle of Chalk, Ping Lu, Zhang Junxiang, Gao Lian, P. C. Chang, Tang Ti-sheng, The Other Shore, Yang Jiang, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Yi Shu, Quyi, Guan Hanqing, Orphan of Zhao, Tang Xianzu, Chinese television drama, Secret Love for the Peach Blossom Spring, Geling Yan, Tu Long, Theatre du Reve Experimental, Guanghe Theatre, Crown of Beauty Theatre, Hai Rui Dismissed from Office, List of theatres in China, Ke Yan, The Injustice to Dou E, Wang Shifu, Xia Yan, Sha Yexin, Shanghai Grand Theatre, The Fragrant Companion, Rhinoceros in love, Wang Yun, Bai Renfu, Shenzhen Cultural Center, Lu Cai, Chongqing Grand Theatre, Li Xingdao. Excerpt: Gao Xingjian (born January 4, 1940) is a Chinese-born novelist, playwright, critic, and painter. An emigre to France since 1987, Gao was granted French citizenship in 1997. He is a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter. Gao was the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an uvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama." Gao's drama is considered to be fundamentally absurdist in nature and avant-garde in his native China. His prose works tend to be less celebrated in China but are highly regarded elsewhere in Europe and the West. He once burnt a suitcase packed with manuscripts during the Cultural Revolution to avoid persecution. Gao's original home town is Taizhou, Jiangsu. Born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China, Gao has ...
