Snow in August: Play by Gao Xingjian - Xingjian Gao - Books - The Chinese University Press - 9789629960681 - June 30, 2003
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Snow in August: Play by Gao Xingjian

Xingjian Gao

Snow in August: Play by Gao Xingjian

This work, a grand opera combining Chinese and Western operatic techniques, is based on the life of the legendary Huineng (AD 633-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. It chronicles the rise and fall of Zen Buddhism across a span of 250 years.


88 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 30, 2003
ISBN13 9789629960681
Publishers The Chinese University Press
Pages 88
Dimensions 15 × 25 × 2 mm   ·   510 g
Translator Fong, Gilbert C. F.

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