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One Man's Bible is a fictionalized account of Gao Xingjian's life under the Chinese Communist regime. Daily life is riddled with paranoia and fear, and government propaganda turns citizens against one another. It is a place where a single sentence spoken ten years earlier can make one an enemy of the state.But One Man's Bible is also a profound meditation on the essence of writing, on exile, on the effects of political oppression on the human spirit, and on how the human spirit can triumph ... Read more

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Title: THE CASE FOR LITERATURE THE 2001 NOBEL LECTURE.
Author: Gao Xingjian
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 75Issue: 1Page: 4

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In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer -- he had won "a second reprieve from death." Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing and began a journey of 15,000 kilometers into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain. Bold, lyrical, and prodigious, Soul Moutain probes the human soul with an uncommon directness and candor and delights in the freedom of the imagination to expand the notion of the individual self. ... Read more

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Chapters: Eileen Chang, Lao She, Qian Zhongshu, Mao Dun, Jin Shengtan, Jin Yong, Han Han, Gao Xingjian, Ba Jin, Wang Shiwei, Lin Yutang, Han Suyin, Hualing Nieh Engle, Xi Xi, Wu Cheng'en, Xiaolu Guo, Nelson Ikon Wu, Qu Bo, Wei Wei, Cao Xueqin, Liang Yusheng, Wang Shuo, Xiao Hong, Sanmao, Bing Xin, Mo Yan, Hong Ying, Yuan Hongbing, Zhang Tianyi, Luo Guanzhong, Lan Samantha Chang, Dai Sijie, Wang Anyi, Chiung Yao, ni Kuang, Wang Ping, Mo Xuanqing, Qiu Xiaolong, Cui Zi En, Li Yu, Lin Haiyin, Cong Weixi, Zhang Xinxin, Li Dawei, Zhou Weihui, Yu Hua, Zhang Ziping, Chen Yingzhen, Zhang Henshui, Liu E, Liu Sola, Han Shaogong, Yin Lichuan, Yi Shu, Feng Jicai, Yang Jiang, Geling Yan, Wu Jingzi, Liu Yichang, Jia Pingwa, Wang Xiaobo, Fan Wu, Feng Menglong, Zhao Shuli, Mian Mian, Wang Meng, Su Tong, Li Ruzhen, Zhang Jie, Ge Fei, Duanmu Hongliang, Qu You, Ke Yan, Lilian Lee, Xu Zhonglin, Chi Li, Shi Naian, Chen Jingrong, Zhang Yingtai, Shi Kang, Zhao Jingshen, Fu Tianlin, Bian Jinyang, Zhang Dachun, Zu Lin, Shi Tiesheng. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 312. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Names This is a Chinese name; the family name is Cha.Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Zh Liángyng; born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (Chinese: ; pinyin: Jn Yng; Cantonese Yale: Gm Yùhng), is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Co-founder of the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao, which he started in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief. Cha's fiction, which is of the Wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His fifteen works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest Wuxia ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=349150 ... Read more