Massage (novel)
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Author | Bi Feiyu |
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Translator | Howard Goldblatt & Sylvia Li-chun Lin (2015) |
Language | Chinese |
Simplified Chinese | 推拿 |
Literal meaning | Tui na |
Hanyu Pinyin | Tuīná |
Massage is a 2008 Chinese novel by Bi Feiyu about blind masseurs. It won the 8th Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2011, one of China's most prestigious literary awards.[1][2] The novel has been translated into English (by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin), German (by Marc Hermann), Russian (by Natalia Vlasova), Korean (by Moon Hyun-seon), and Japanese (by Yutori Iizuka).
Massage was adapted into a 2013 TV series See Without Looking, a 2014 film Blind Massage (which won Asian Film Award for Best Film and Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film), as well as a successful stage production.
References
[edit]- ^ Whitehead, Kate (2015-05-13). "Chinese novelist Bi Feiyu opens readers' eyes to blind masseurs' world". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2024-02-18.
- ^ Yang, Guang (2011-08-21). "Five books awarded Mao Dun prize". China Daily. Retrieved 2024-02-18.