Gao has touched off another interesting debate in Taiwan-one on the competing desires of the spirit and the flesh. Discussing Gao together with former Japanese porn star Iijima Ai causes many cultural critics to shake their heads, but the two writers 'works are not that dissimilar.
高行健在台引爆的另一個有趣的話題，是「靈山」與「靈肉」之爭，而將高行健與日本 AV 女星飯島愛相提並論，則讓許多文化評論者大搖其頭。