Dai Sijie






Dai Sijie

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born
March 02, 1954

gender
male

place of birth
Chengdu, Sichuan, China

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genre
Literature & Fiction, Screenwriter


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Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954. Because he came from an educated middle-class family, the Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his return, he was able to complete high school and university, where he studied art history.

In 1984, he left China for France on a scholarship. 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 and Tang, le onzième. He also wrote and directed an adaptation of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, released in 2002.

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Balzac and the Little Chinese... Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
by Dai Sijie
avg rating 3.56 — 7,971 ratings — published 2001
47 editions
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Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch
by Dai Sijie
avg rating 2.71 — 284 ratings — published 2003
15 editions
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Once on a Moonless Night Once on a Moonless Night
by Dai Sijie
avg rating 2.87 — 15 ratings — published 2009
7 editions
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Balzac und die kleine chinesis... Balzac und die kleine chinesische Schneiderin: Das Taschenhörbuch
by Dai Sijie, Edgar M. Böhlke (Sprecher)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009
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Wie ein Wanderer in einer mond... Wie ein Wanderer in einer mondlosen Nacht
by Dai Sijie, Giò Waeckerlin Induni (Übersetzer)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009
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Once on a Moonless Night Once on a Moonless Night
by Dai Sijie, Adriana Hunter (Translator)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010
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Ein Koffer voller Liebe: Perle... Ein Koffer voller Liebe: Perlen der modernen Liebesliteratur. 20 CDs
by Joanne Harris, Dai Sijie, Anna McPartlin
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008
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"I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book: once you had read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same."
Dai Sijie (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel)
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"In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was."
Dai Sijie (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel)
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""To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.""
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