Awards and nominations The book is the winner of several literary awards. The novel won five French literary prizes. and was a best seller in 2000." Adaptations Dai Sijie directed and adapted his novel into a film, released in 2003, starring Zhou Xun, Liu Ye and Chen Kun. Interviews and reading guides Book Drum profile. Summary, glossary, setting and page-by-page illustrated notes in English. Interview with Dai Sijie on NPR's All Things Considered. In French with English translation. Originally aired March 17, 2002. INA interview with Dai Sijie. Originally aired January 21, 2000. Interview with Dai Sijie from bacfilms.com. French. http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/balzac_and_the_seamstress1.asp Articles and Book Reviews Allen, Brooke. "A Suitcase Education." New York Times Book Review, 9/16/2001, p 24. Bloom, Michelle E. "Contemporary Franco-Chinese Cinema: Translation, Citation and Imitation in Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and Tsai Ming-Liang's What Time is it There?" Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 22:311–325, 2005. Chevaillier, Flore. "Commercialism and Cultural Misreading in Dai Sijie's Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise." Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2011 Jan; 47 (1): 60–74. Coltvet, Ben McDonald. Review in Christian Century, 1/2/2002, Vol. 119 Issue 1, p 37. Abstract available at http://www.christiancentury.org/reviews/2011-05/balzac-and-little-chinese-seamstress-dai-sijie McCall, Ian. "French Literature And Film In The USSR And Mao's China: Intertexts In Makine's Au Temps Du Fleuve Amour And Dai Sijie's Balzac Et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise." Romance Studies, Vol. 24 (2), July 2006. Riding, Alan. "Artistic Odyssey: Film to Fiction to Film." The New York Times, 7/27/2005, p 1. Schwartz, Lynne Sharon. "In the Beginning Was the Book." New Leader, Sep/October 2001, Vol. 84 Issue 5, p. 23. Silvester, Rosalind. "Genre and Image in Francophone Chinese Works". Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Vol. 10, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 367–375. Watts, Andrew. "Mao's China in the Mirror: Reversing the Exotic in Dai Sijie's Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise." Romance Studies, 2011 Jan; 29 (1): 27–39. Wiegand, David. "Painful Truths: Revolution-era Fable Explores the Consequences of Knowledge", San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, October 28, 2001. References 2000 French novels Novels by Dai Sijie French historical novels French autobiographical novels French novels adapted into films Novels set in China French bildungsromans Anchor Books books