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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.
Oct 1, 2010 · Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi (and translated into English by Jeremy Tiang) is a collection of stories, little snippets, about life during the Cultural Revolution in China. Hard stories, sometimes horrific stories, all told with the same calm demeanour.
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’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.
Jun 12, 2023 · In “Chicken Blood,” Zou’s rooster is a cockfighter whose blood is drawn and used as a potential cure for his neighbor’s chronic diarrhea. In “Blister Beetle,” another sent-down youth, Horseface, ingests a bug so his bloody urine can result in a medical discharge from the Northern Great Waste.
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.
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. Despite his success, in the early 1990s, ...
