Early Life
Gao Xingjian was born on January 4, 1940, in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, China. His father was a bank official, and his mother was an actress who encouraged his interest in the arts. During the Cultural Revolution, Gao was sent to a re-education camp. He later destroyed his early writings to avoid political persecution.
Rise to Success
Gao studied French at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute. He began his writing career in the 1980s, publishing plays, poems, and essays that were considered subversive by the Chinese regime. His play *Bus Stop* (1983) was censored. He became a French citizen in 1998. In 2000, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Key Business Strategies
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Philanthropy
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