{"product_id":"calling-for-a-new-renaissance-hardcover","title":"Calling for a New Renaissance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eXingjian Gao\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMabel Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eYan Qian\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncludes 50 images, with a large number of paintings from Gao Xingjian's private collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000 for a body of literary works originally written and published in Chinese and later translated and published in English, French, and Swedish. Gao's plays have been performed in even more languages on the stages of Asia, Europe, United States, Africa, and Australia. He is also recognized as a painter of international significance; in 2015 his six-panel work \u003cem\u003eThe Awakening of the Consciousness\u003c\/em\u003e became the sole permanent display of a designated room in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. His extraordinary creative achievements draw on his innate talents but also on his profound knowledge and understanding of the creative arts of China and the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 1940 in China, Gao Xingjian graduated from the Foreign Languages Institute (now renamed Beijing Foreign Studies University) with a major in French and then lived through the horrors of the Cultural Revolution. He became a celebrity playwright and literary critic during the early 1980s until the Chinese authorities banned his works. In 1987 he traveled to Europe and by early 1988 settled in Paris, where he began to write and to paint. Today most of his major writings have been published in different languages and his plays continue to be staged all over the world. In addition, there have been ninety solo exhibitions of his Chinese ink paintings that have been held in Asia, Europe, and the United States, and some fifty books have been published on his art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCalling for a New Renaissance\u003c\/em\u003e, Gao presents his primary concerns of the past decade or so. He indicts the lingering impact of ideology on contemporary literature and art, and for this reason calls for \"a new Renaissance,\" a result of which would be \"boundary-crossing creations\" such as the three cine-poems that he produced and describes in detail in this book. Of importance in this book, and not documented elsewhere, Gao offers his insights on how, despite receiving his education in the People's Republic of China, he succeeded in educating himself in both Chinese and world literatures because of his love of reading and his disciplined approach to reading. This book also includes fifty images selected by Gao, forty-five of which are his favorite paintings from his private collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCalling for a New Renaissance\u003c\/em\u003e is a valuable resource for academic researchers, students, and general readers interested in Gao Xingjian, transcultural studies, transdisciplinary studies, and transmedia studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSee also \u003cstrong\u003eGao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation\u003c\/strong\u003e by Gao Xingjian and \u003cstrong\u003eGao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics\u003c\/strong\u003e edited by Mabel Lee and Liu Jianmei.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335327826169,"sku":"9781621966548","price":187.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/em92RHNvdm0wNzZRT3JYRGRuN0FMUT09.webp?v=1769657995","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/calling-for-a-new-renaissance-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}