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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Chinese-born writer whose works include the play Bus Stop (1983) and the novel Soul Mountain (1999). He won the 2000 Nobel Prize for literature.
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But then there are writers such as Gao Xingjian and Jose Saramago whose work I discovered because of the new prominence the Nobel gave them, and those are discoveries I treasure.
Nobel Thoughts 2008
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But then there are writers such as Gao Xingjian and Jose Saramago whose work I discovered because of the new prominence the Nobel gave them, and those are discoveries I treasure.
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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Lovell, who falls in the latter category, draws on the work she did back in graduate school on the PRC's "Nobel Complex" and on writer-in-exile Gao Xingjian, another person whose prize was viewed by Beijing as the wrong sort of Nobel recognition for a Chinese individual.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China in 2010: A 13-Link Retrospective Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2011
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Lovell, who falls in the latter category, draws on the work she did back in graduate school on the PRC's "Nobel Complex" and on writer-in-exile Gao Xingjian, another person whose prize was viewed by Beijing as the wrong sort of Nobel recognition for a Chinese individual.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China in 2010: A 13-Link Retrospective Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2011
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Lovell, who falls in the latter category, draws on the work she did back in graduate school on the PRC's "Nobel Complex" and on writer-in-exile Gao Xingjian, another person whose prize was viewed by Beijing as the wrong sort of Nobel recognition for a Chinese individual.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China in 2010: A 13-Link Retrospective Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2011
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Lovell, who falls in the latter category, draws on the work she did back in graduate school on the PRC's "Nobel Complex" and on writer-in-exile Gao Xingjian, another person whose prize was viewed by Beijing as the wrong sort of Nobel recognition for a Chinese individual.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom: China in 2010: A 13-Link Retrospective Jeffrey Wasserstrom 2011
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For Gao Xingjian, winning the Nobel Prize will not make up for all the years Beijing has shunned his writing.
A First For China 2008
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And Chinese writers, including the first to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gao Xingjian, vie to have their books published in arguably the world's freest Chinese city.
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After living under the shadow of Beijing's rule for more than three years, most of them expected the exiled writer, Gao Xingjian, to pay tribute to a common struggle for freedom of expression.
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The fact is that they failed, and that no Chinese citizen has ever had the Nobel Prize Gao Xingjian wrote his most significant works, made "unavailable" on the Mainland, in Chinese, but he was awarded as French.
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