Dai Sijie
Dai Sijie (Chinese: 戴思杰, pinyin: Dài Sījié; born 1954) is a Chinese–French author and filmmaker.Dai Sijie was born in Chengdu, Sichuan in 1954. His parents, Professor Dai Baoming and Professor Hu Xiaosu, were professors of West China University of Medical Sciences. He grew up extensively reading and thinking. He excels himself in many things, including being a skilled tailor. The Maoist government sent him to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974 during the Cultural Revolution. Though, as the only child in the family, he would have been excused, he went there with the idea of the Sparta training. Much of this experience was the source of his first book. After his return, he completed his professional certificate as a teacher. He briefly taught in The No. 16 High School of Chengdu upon his enrolling to Department of History of Sichuan University in Feb. 1978 (so-called 77 grader)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. He lives in Paris and writes in French.His 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 was published in 2008.
