Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather, also rendered from Chinese as A Fishing Rod for My Grandpa, is a 2004 collection of six short stories by the Chinese writer Gao Xingjian.
Gao | Gao Hucheng | Gao Xingjian | Gao Lin | Gao Yuanyuan | Gao Yan (politician) | Gao Wei | Gao Region | Gao Zhao | Gao Yang (artist) | Gao Yang | Gao Xiqing | Gao Xing | Gao Wenqian | Gao's oldest daughter | Gao Siren | Gao Pian | Gao Ming | Gao Jifu | Gao Hongbo | Gao Gang | Gao Feng (wrestler) | Gao Feng | Gao Cheng | Battle of Gao | Bai Xingjian |
Lee was a professor of South-East Asian Studies at Sydney University and had already begun translation of the poems of Chinese writer, Yang Lian when she met Gao Xingjian, in Paris in 1991.
In selecting it as a notable work of Chinese literature since 1949 which could qualify as an overlooked classic, Professor Shelley W. Chan of Wittenberg University said Notes on Principles was similar to but better than Soul Mountain by Nobel Prize-winner Gao Xingjian.
Following publication, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.