Gao is considered the leading contemporary Chinese dramatist. His plays, which combine Zen philosophy and a modern worldview, have been performed all over the world, from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Australia to the Ivory Coast, the United States, France, Germany and other European countries. – China Times (Taiwan)
- A TRUE EXILE WRITER: Those familiar with Gao’s work say he rankles the pro-democracy movement as well as China’s communist government. – Washington Post
- WHO, AGAIN? “Xingjian is apparently the creator of Chinese oral theatre as well the author of a classic novel, ‘Soul Mountain’. I have never heard of him and neither – shameful to relate – had anyone else whose opinion I canvassed in the half-hour or so following the announcement, but then neither had many westerners heard of the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz before his triumph in 1988 or Polish poet Wislawa Symborska in 1996.” – The Guardian