Abstract
Gao Xingjian is an emigre writer of fiction and drama, translator, painter, film and stage director, and critic. In 1987, Gao Xingjian traveled to Germany on a German government writer's fellowship, and subsequently applied for permanent residency in France. One of Gao's greatest contributions to Chinese literature and drama lies in his innovative use of language, which draws extensively from modern, premodern, Chinese, and Western literary traditions. As Leo Ou-fan Lee comments, Soul Mountain is characterized by a rich fictional language filled with vernacular speeches and elegant wenyan formulations as well as dialects, thus constituting a 'heteroglossic' tapestry of sounds and rhythms that can indeed be read aloud. Gao Xingjian's 563-page novel Soul Mountain is a fictionalized autobiography and account of his five-month trek, wandering across 15,000 kilometers of the Chinese hinterland along the Yangtze River.
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