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In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer and painter Gao Xingjian was
diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a
second examination revealed there was no cancer--he had won "a reprieve from
death" and had been thrown back into the world of the living. Faced with a
repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell on a prison farm, Gao
fled Beijing. He traveled to the remote mountains and ancient forests of central
China and from there back to the east coast, a journey of fifteen thousand
kilometers over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage
In 1983 Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer and painter Gao Xingjian was
diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a
second examination revealed there was no cancer--he had won "a reprieve from
death" and had been thrown back into the world of the living. Faced with a
repressive cultural environment and the threat of a spell on a prison farm, Gao
fled Beijing. He traveled to the remote mountains and ancient forests of central
China and from there back to the east coast, a journey of fifteen thousand
kilometers over a period of five months. The result of this epic voyage