Gao Xingjian and Transcultural Chinese Theater

"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.