Snow in August is a new play by Gao Xingjian, the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. The story is based on the life of the legendary Huineng (AD 633-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. It represents a change in the direction on the part of the playwright - a return to a Chinese theme after years of writing on ”universal” subject matters.
In this play, Gao finds a soul-mate in Huineng, a marginal figure in the society of his time, who defies established thinking and conventions and challenges even the emperor in refusing to serve the imperial court.
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Gilbert C. F. Fong is a professor at the Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the translator of The Other Shore: Plays by Gao Xingjian, (also by The Chinese University Press, 1999) and also editor of Hong Kong Drama Review, Journal of Translation Studies and several books on Chinese and Hong Kong Drama.
