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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.
May 16, 2022 · Zou Jingzhi on Ninth Building. ‘There’s an ancient Chinese saying, about a child who has lost their mother: ‘I dream of mother, she was like a gust of wind’. A lonely child sees his mother in a dream at night; everything returns to normal in the daylight. He thought his mother came to see him.
Zou Jingzhi’s novel Ninth Building was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, announced on March 14 2023. A kaleidoscopic and understated collection of interlocking tales of life in an apartment building under the Cultural Revolution – the daily tedium of its inhabitants, lit by brief and tenuous moments of shared humanity.
Mar 20, 2023 · Ninth Building, originally written in Chinese, is longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023. Read an extract from the book here. 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 ...
Oct 1, 2010 · In Ninth Building, Zou Jingzhi weaves an intricate tapestry of vignettes inspired by his own experiences during the Cultural Revolution, painting a vivid portrait of life during that tumultuous period.
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Jun 12, 2023 · Zou’s collection of essays gives a literal expression to the term “nostalgia,” which designates the “pain of returning.” The suffering in recollecting the ten years of catastrophe is articulated as strongly as a transfixion by the past.
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Apr 10, 2023 · Ninth Building, a book by the highly regarded Chinese writer Zou Jingzhi and translated by Adjunct Associate Professor Jeremy Tiang, will be released next week from Open Letter. The work has been longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize.
