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Book Review: Gao Xingjian: Painter of the Soul

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Feb 08, 2014
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Gao Xingjian is one of China’s greatest living writers and dramatists, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000. He won acclaim with his novel Soul Mountain, a part-memoir, part novel detailing his travels among Chinese minorities on the fringes of the Han Chinese civilization.

Unfortunately, like far too many Chinese artists, he cannot be read…

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