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In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was identified as having lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six months later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer—he had gained "a second liberation from death." Confronted with a repressive cultural environment and the risk of a spell in a prison farm, Gao fled Beijing and started a voyage of 15,000 kilometers in to the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China. Caused by this epic voyage of discovery is Soul musical, Mountain.Bold, and enormous, Soul Moutain probes the human soul by having an uncommon directness and candor and treats in the freedom of the imagination to expand the idea of the in-patient self.