Dai Sijie
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Dai Sijie | |
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戴思杰 | |
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Occupation(s) | Author, screenwriter, director |
Dai Sijie | |
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Hanyu Pinyin | Dài Sījié |
IPA | [tâɪ sɹ̩́tɕjě] |
Dai Sijie (born 1954) is a
Early life
Dai was born in
Career
In 1984, Dai left China for France on a scholarship to study at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director. Before turning to writing, he made three critically acclaimed feature-length films: China, My Sorrow (1989) (original title: Chine, ma douleur), Le mangeur de lune (Moon Eater) and Tang, le onzième (The Eleventh Child). He also wrote and directed an adaptation of his novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002. He lives in Paris and writes in French.
Dai's novel, Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée (Once on a Moonless Night), was published in 2007. L'acrobatie aérienne de Confucius (The Aerial Acrobatics of Confucius) was published in 2008.
Novels
Dai's first book,
Dai's second book,
Works
Books
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise) - 2000
- Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch (Le Complexe de Di) - 2003 (Prix Femina)
- Once on a Moonless Night (Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée) - 2007
- The Gospel According to Yong Sheng (L’Évangile selon Yong Sheng) - 2019
Filmography as director
- China, My Sorrow (Chine, ma douleur) - 1989 (Prix Jean Vigo)
- Moon Eater (Le mangeur de lune) - 1994
- The Eleventh Child (Tang le onzième) - 1998
- Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise) - 2002
- The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (Les filles du botaniste) - 2006
- Night Peacock (Le paon de nuit) - 2015[2]
References
Citations
- ^ "Biography of Dai Sijie". Grade Saver. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ Clifford Coonan (8 February 2015). "Berlin: France Setting the Pace On China Co-Productions". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
Sources
- "Dai Sijie." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2011. Biography in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000149472/BIC1?u=ivytech20&xid=4891c7a9. Accessed 16 Apr. 2017.
External links
- Dai Sijie at IMDb