Table Of ContentGao Xingjian and
Transmedia Aesthetics
Gao Xingjian and
Transmedia Aesthetics
EDITED BY
Mabel Lee and Liu Jianmei
Cambria Sinophone World Series
General Editor: Victor H. Mair
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Lee, Mabel editor. | Liu, Jianmei, editor.
Title: Gao Xingjian and transmedia aesthetics /
edited by Mabel Lee and Liu Jianmei.
Description: Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, 2018. |
Series: Cambria Sinophone world series |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018003597 |
ISBN 9781604979466 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Gao, Xingjian--Aesthetics. | Aesthetics in literature.
Classification: LCC PL2869.O128 Z734 2018 |
DDC 895.12/52--dc23
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Table of Contents
List of Figures................................................................ ix
Chapter 1: Introduction
Mabel Lee and Liu Jianmei..................................... 1
Part I: Philosophical Inquiry........................................... 21
Chapter 2: Gao Xingjian and Philosophy
Jean-Pierre Zarader............................................. 23
Chapter 3: Gao Xingjian: Exemplifying a Renaissance in Today’s
World
Liu Zaifu........................................................ 43
Chapter 4: An Insignificant Individual’s Defiance
Ming Jian........................................................ 55
Chapter 5: The Art of Gao Xingjian
Stephen Conlon................................................. 69
Chapter 6: Women and the Dao in Gao Xingjian’s Works
Liu Jianmei...................................................... 81
Part II: Trans-Discipline, Trans-Genre, Trans-Media and
Trans-Culture.............................................................. 97
Chapter 7: Nonattachment and Gao Xingjian’s Neutral Actor
Gilbert Fong and Shelby Chan................................ 99
Chapter 8: Gao Xingjian’s Search for a Scenic Dramaturgy and
Cinematic Language in Song of the Night
Mary Mazzilli.................................................. 115
Chapter 9: Two Gao Xingjian Exhibitions Launched
Simultaneously in Brussels during 2015
Liu Zaifu....................................................... 131
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Chapter 10: The Mind’s Eye
Kwok-kan Tam............................................... 141
Chapter 11: Chan Buddhist Scenography and Gao Xingjian’s
Opera Snow in August
Jiang Hanyang............................................... 169
Part III: Cine-Poems with Paintings, Dance, and
Music........................................................................ 179
Chapter 12: Floods and Forests
Megan Evans................................................. 181
Chapter 13: Bodies and Paintings
Fiona Sze-Lorrain............................................ 195
Chapter 14: From Theater to Cine-Poetry
Wah Guan Lim.............................................. 201
Chapter 15: Inlaying Images and Seeing Poetry
Yue Huanyu.................................................. 217
Part IV: Identifying and Defining the Self........................ 229
Chapter 16: Gao Xingjian: Autobiography, Auto-fiction, and
Poetry
Noël Dutrait.................................................. 231
Chapter 17: Working Through Trauma in Gao Xingjian’s One
Man’s Bible
Janet Shum................................................... 245
Chapter 18: Identity and Creation
Michael Berry................................................ 261
Chapter 19: The Authorial Self in Gide’s The Fruits of the Earth,
Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet, and Gao Xingjian’s Soul
Mountain
Pan Shuyang................................................. 277
Epilogue: A Panoramic View of Gao Xingjian’s World
Liu Zaifu........................................................... 289
Table of Contents vii
Bibliography................................................................ 309
Index......................................................................... 323
About the Contributors................................................... 335
Praise for Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics.................... 343
Cambria Sinophone World Series....................................... 347
