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Gao Lian or Kao Lien (c. 1583), Chinese dramatist and encyclopedist, is perhaps best remembered for his play Yü-tsan chi, a classic of the Ming period theater in thirty-three scenes, some of which are still performed today. Kao remained largely outside of official circles and is an example of a p’u-i wen-jen or commoner literatus, many examples of whom lived in the 17th century. Kao’s encyclopedia, Ts’un-sheng pa-chien, or Eight Treatises on the Nurturing of Life, has a distinctly modern ring with its espousal of stress avoidance as a key to overall physical health. Kao, in his discussion of mental disorders (hsin-ping), successfully diagnosed the condition now known as Bipolar Disorder. Interestingly Kao advised his readers to avoid abortion and show concern for the elderly and physically weak. He suggested we attach ourselves to a major religious system or our inner emptiness will invite some manner of physical disease. Kao suggests he was a resident of Hangzhou and its celebrated West Lake with his area details. His works is a virtual treasure trove for early 17th century aesthetics and material culture such as garden architecture, tea culture and dwarf trees. The above items were additional examples of his overall aim at the maintenance of bodily health through a quiet enjoyment of human life. Bipolar disorder (previously known as Manic Depression) is a psychiatric diagnostic category describing a class of mood disorders in which the person experiences clinical depression and/or mania, hypomania, and/or mixed states. ... (Chinese: ; pinyin: HángzhÅu; Postal map spelling: Hangchow) is a sub-provincial city in China and the capital of Zhejiang province. ... The West Lake West Lake (Chinese: ; pinyin: XÄ« Hú) is a famous fresh water lake located in central Hangzhou, in Zhejiang province of eastern China. ...
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Carpenter, Bruce E., Kao ‘Lien’s Eight Treatises on the Nurturing of Life.’ Tezukayama University Review (Tezukayama daigaku ronshu) , Nara, Japan, no. 67, 1990, pp. 38-51.
GAO XINGJIAN What I tried to do in Soul Mountain was to express in Chinese the many coexistent levels of experience in modern life, and to present it as a ‘stream of language’.
GAO XINGJIAN The ultimate reason for the existence of serious literature, non-commercial literature, is within the literature itself and not in its market value or the reactions of readers and society.
YANG LIAN Almost all foundations of philosophy and literature of the twentieth century – such as Marx, Freud, Joyce and Mann – were built on a sense of exile, and this has profoundly affected knowledge of the self and existence.
Gao Xingjian (高行健 in pinyin: gao1 xing2 jiang4) is a Chinese language storyteller, translator, dramatist, director, critic, and artist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000.
Gao Xingjian, le moderniste // La Chine aujourd'hui NO 41, septembre 1986.
Lee, Mabel, Pronouns as Protagonists: Gao Xingjian's Lingshan as Autobiography // Colloquium OF the Sydney Society OF Literature and Aesthetics RK the Univ. OF Sydney.
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