When a man gets to middle age shouldn’t he look for a peaceful and stable existence, find a not-too-demanding sort of a job, stay in a mediocre position, become a husband and a father, set up a comfortable home, put money in the bank and add to it every month so there’ll be something for old age and a little left over for the next generation? Soul Mountain pg.9
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Gao Xingjian was born January 4, 1940 in Ganzhou (simplified Chinese: 赣州; traditional Chinese: 贛州; pinyin: Gànzhōu) (also formerly known in English as Kanchou) is a prefecture-level city in Jiangxi province, China. Its administrative seat is at Zhanggong (章贡).
n 201, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty established a county in the territory of modern Ganzhou. In those early years, ethnic Han settlement and authority in the area was minimal and largely restricted to the Gan River basin. The river, a tributary of the Yangtze River via Poyang Lake, provided a route of communication from the north as well as irrigation for rice farming. During the Sui Dynasty the county administration was promoted to prefecture status and the area called Qianzhou (虔州). During the Song Dynasty immigration from the north bolstered the local population and drove local aboriginal tribes further into the hills. Especially after the fall of the Northern Song capital of Kaifeng, migrants increased dramatically. The name was officially changed to Ganzhou in the Southern Song. During the late 1800s Ganzhou was opened as one of the southern treaty ports and became a minor base for foreign companies. Between 1929 and 1934, Ganzhou formed a part of the Jiangxi Soviet, one of the bases of the Communist Party of China. Due to its proximity to the Red capital Ruijin (瑞金), Ganzhou was subject to a number of Kuomintang encirclement campaigns. (from Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzhou It sure is noisy getting up to Soul Mountain on page 6, road timber trucks go by noisily sounding horns. Noise worsens as trucks with trailers, blast their horns and conductors bang loudly on the buses. On page 7 the rushing water churns loudly and the evening wind blows noisily and the cars with their deafening horns. The ominous black image nibbles at the sun as it sets. It becomes serenely awesome and more sound, this time from "deep in your heart" radiating outward. Later there is knocking, shouting and yelling. What does this mean?
Here is a Soul Mountain plot summary review by Betty-Jeanne Korson:
http://www.allreaders.com/topics/info_5170.asp 2010 National Book Award Finalist,
Nonfiction Patti Smith Just Kids"The most important task was to give Robert to the reader." Interview with #NBA10 Nonfiction Finalist Patti Smith: http://bit.ly/aIvNKg. PW Best Books 2010: A Special Place by Peter Straub. http://bit.ly/bnOKOl
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