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Ma Jian


Born
in Qingdao, China
August 18, 1953

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Literature & Fiction, Politics, Religion & Spirituality


Ma Jian was born in Qingdao,China on the 18th of August 1953. In 1986, Ma moved to Hong Kong after a clampdown by the Chinese government in which most of his works were banned.

He moved again in 1997 to Germany, but only stayed for two years; moving to England in 1999 where he now lives with his partner and translator Flora Drew.

Ma came to the attention of the English-speaking world with his story collection Stick Out Your Tongue Stories, translated into English in 2006.

His Beijing Coma tells the story of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 from the point of view of the fictional Dai Wei, a participant in the events left in a coma by the violent end of the protests. His most recent novel China Dream will be published in the US in May 2019. ...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 10,086 ratings · 1,340 reviews · 44 distinct works • Similar authors
Red Dust: A Path Through China
3.86 avg rating — 2,326 ratings — published 2001 — 36 editions
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Beijing Coma
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China Dream
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3.43 avg rating — 2,002 ratings — published 2018 — 29 editions
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The Dark Road
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Stick Out Your Tongue
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The Noodle Maker
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3.39 avg rating — 1,196 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions
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“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
― Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China
tags: travel
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“I feel I have walked onto a stage. The people around me are absorbed in their parts, putting on this great show, but nothing seems real. Every object looks like a prop. Since I have no part I am reduced to the role of a spectator, but there is nowhere to sit, so I have to mingle with the actors on stage. It is a terrible feeling.”
― Ma Jian
tags: life, moods, reflections
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“I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.”
― Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China
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