Author(s)

Zhaxi Yangzhen

Corresponding Author

Zhaxi Yangzhen

ABSTRACT

Pema Tseden is a Tibetan novelist and director. In the early days, he has written many short novels, some of which were turned into movies and gained him various international movie prizes. Now he is recognized as one of the Tibetan cultural icons. Balloon is his latest movie, based on which he wrote the short novel-Balloon. Different from his earlier works, he has put more attention on the female characters and gender issue in this novel. The paper intends to study the gender issue in the novel.

KEYWORDS

Pema tseden, Balloon, Female characters