"A chronology of Gao Xingjian:" p. [311]-339.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction : Gao Xingjian, the Nobel Prize and the politics of recognition / Kwok-kan Tam -- Gao Xingjian on the issue of literary creation for the modern writer / Mabel Lee -- Drama of paradox : waiting as form and motif in The bus-stop and Waiting for Godot / Kwok-kan Tam -- Avant-garde theatre in post-Mao China : The bus-stop by Gao Xingjian / William Tay -- The theatre of the absurd in China : Gao Xingjian's The bus-stop / Ma Sen -- Wild man between two cultures / Xiaomei Chen -- The myth of Gao Xingjian / Jo Riley and Michael Gissenwehrer -- Gao Xingjian's Monologue as metadrama / Amy T.Y. Lai -- Gao Xingjian and the idea of theatre / Gilbert C.F. Fong -- Space and suppositionality in Gao Xingjian's theatre / Quah Sy Ren -- Gao Xingjian and the Asian experimentation in postmodernist performance / Kwok-kan Tam -- Gender and self in Gao Xingjian's three post-exile plays / Terry Siu-han Yip and Kwok-kan Tam -- Pronouns as protagonists : on Gao Xingjian's theories of narration / Mabel Lee -- World literature with Chinese characteristics : on a novel by Gao Xingjian / Torbjörn Lodén -- Gao Xingjian's dialogue with two dead poets from Shaoxing : Xu Wei and Lu Xun / Mabel Lee -- Language as subjectivity in One man's bible / Kwok-kan Tam -- A chronology of Gao Xingjian / Terry Siu-han Yip.