Dai Sijie
Gender: Male
Born: 2nd March 1954 (currently 57 years old)
Nationality: France
Movies: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, China, My Sorrow, Les Filles du Botaniste
Dai Sijie (Chinese: 戴思杰, pinyin: Dài Sījié; born 1954) is a French author and filmmaker of Chinese ancestry.
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. He lives in Paris and writes in French.
A new novel, Par une nuit où la lune ne s'est pas levée (Once on a moonless night), appeared in 2007.
L'acrobatie aérienne de Confucius was released in 2008.
His first book, the semi-autobiographical Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress) (2000), was made into a movie, in 2002, which he
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