I am such an idiot! How come I never know (or maybe I'd heard about it but didn't pay attention?) there has ever been a Chinese awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000. Gao Xingjian, (1940- )  produced his drama, novel and critics in China up until 1986 before he left for Europe.  The most exciting part is he wrote in Chinese about Chinese people from a Chinese heart.

 

Yu Dafu is right when he talked about how pathetic a nation is when it is blind and deaf about its native heroes.  Lord, I must go check it out.