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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.
Apr 4, 2023 · Zou Jingzhi interview: ‘I wrote this book to let go of my childhood’. With Ninth Building longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023, the author talks about why he prefers to write with a pen than a keyboard – and how his book has travelled through time. Read interviews with all of the longlisted authors and translators here.
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.
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.
Mar 14, 2023 · 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.
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, ...
