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Zou Jingzhi (邹静之, 1952) is a Chinese playwright. He has written the librettos for two Chinese-language western-style operas by woman composer Lei Lei: Xi Shi (opera) based on the story of Xi Shi, and The Chinese Orphan (2011) based on the story The Orphan of Zhao.
Zou Jingzhi’s novel Ninth Building was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, announced on March 14 2023.
Oct 1, 2010 · Ninth Building (written in Chinese by Zou Jingzhi and translated into English by Jeremy Tiang) is a collection of vignettes reflecting Zou's experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution in 1966.
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Apr 4, 2023 · A fascinating collection of vignettes based on the author’s life in China during the Cultural Revolution. Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, author Zou Jingzhi talks about the inspiration behind Ninth Building in an exclusive interview.
Zou Jingzhi is highly regarded in China as a fiction writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright. He is a founding member of the Chinese theatre collective Longmashe.
Zou Jingzhi. Zou Jingzhi was born in 1952 in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. The family moved to Beijing when he was one. He initially wanted to be an animal breeder. However he switched his interest to music and spent a long time studying music. He almost became an opera actor.
Mar 20, 2023 · Revisiting his experiences as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside, Zou Jingzhi captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is seldom talked about - the sheer tedium and waste of young life under the regime, as well as the gallows humour that accompanies such desperate situations.
