Born and educated in China, Xingjian Gao studied French
literature at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute between
1957-1962. He became a resident playwright at the Beijing People's
Art Theatre after the Cultural Revolution. His plays have been
performed all around the world, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan,
Japan, Australia, the Ivory Coast, the United States, France,
Germany and other European countries. The Other Shore was banned in
China in 1986 and since then none of his plays have been performed
there. He settled in France in 1987 where he was awarded the
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French
Government in 1992. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
2000.
Gilbert C. F. Fong is an associate professor in the
department of translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
and is heading a research project on the history of Hong Kong
drama. He is also the editor of the monographs Studies on Hong Kong
Drama and Plays from Hong Kong, and of the journal Hong Kong Drama
Review.
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