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Looking for online definition of ngao or what ngao stands for. The motive for the journey is an encounter on a train with a man who is going to ling shan soul mountain. He is in search of something, some answer, some mythical place he calls soul mountain. In 1983 chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter gao xingjian pronounced gow shingjen was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. Free download or read online soul mountain pdf epub book. It also provides references to the numbering systems in kristofer schippers concordance du taotsang, in the harvardyenching index of the canon, and in daozang tiyao descriptive notes on the texts in the taoist canon. Gao xingjian began writing soul mountain, the introspective and experimental novel key to his winning the nobel prize in literature, in beijing in the summer of 1982. Gao xingjian s soul mountain relates the experience of the authors attempt to find himself and understand the nature of the soul. Facing time on a prison farm for defying his countrys laws of cultural conformity, artistwriter gao xingjian embarked on an epic search for his roots and for freedom. Gao xingjian s novel, soul mountain, is about a similar wandering.
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