SOURCE: Goldblatt, Howard. Review of The Other Shore, by Gao Xingjian. World Literature Today 74, no. 4 (autumn 2000): 801-02.

In the following review of The Other Shore, a collection of Gao's plays in English translation, Goldblatt praises the introduction and the translation of the works by Gilbert Fong.

Gao Xingjian is, as the editor/translator of The Other Shore states in his introduction, a major figure in world drama, and the most innovative, if not the most famous, playwright China has produced in this century (one recalls Cao Yu). Yet he is not well represented in the West, if one excludes the acclaim he has garnered in France, his adopted homeland; for that and other reasons, one welcomes this collection of his plays in translation. (Editor's Note: This review was written and submitted three months before the announcement of Gao's receipt of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature.)

Gilbert Fong's introduction...