Ink Dances In Limbo - Gao Xingjian'S Writing As Cultural Translation

Presents a study of the written works of Gao Xingjian, China's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It analyses each group of his writing and argues for a reading of Gao's writing as a phenomenon of 'cultural translation'. It looks at Gao's works from a double perspective: in terms of their relevance both to China and to the West.