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April 11, 2023fiction | pb | 208 pgs.5.5" x 8.5"978-1-948830-75-1 Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize! Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the coun
Apr 19, 2023 · Longlisted for the 2023 International Booker prize, Zou Jingzhi’s novel Ninth Building, translated by Jeremy Taing, is a harrowing depiction of boyhood during the Cultural Revolution. Born in 1952, Jingzhi has built a prolific career in the arts as a writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright.
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. As a screenwriter, the films he wrote for Zhang Yimou and Wong Kar Wai have been well received at film festivals across the world.
Jingzhi Zou. Writer: The Grandmaster. Jingzhi Zou is known for The Grandmaster (2013), Coming Home (2014) and One Second (2020).
Jun 12, 2023 · Ninth Building (jiudong) is a collection of essays Zou Jingzhi began writing in 1996 after the titular building where he grew up was demolished and replaced by a new one. The collection was published in 2010 and translated into English by Jeremy Tiang in 2022.
Extremely influential as as poet in the 1980s, Zou Jingzhi continues to shape public opinion today through his screenplays for directors that include Wong Kar-Wai and Zhang Yimou. He is a founding member of the Beijing theatre collective Longmashe, which regularly produces his plays.
Apr 11, 2023 · Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about—the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such ...
