Red Dust - A Path Through China

Informationen zum Autor Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China. He is the author of seven novels, a travel memoir, three story collections and two essay collections. He has been translated into twenty-six languages. Since the publication of his first book in 1987, all his work has been banned in China. He now lives in exile in London Klappentext A young Chinese man recounts his disillusionment with the Communist system, and his extraordinary journey around China in search of himself, and of his nation's true identity. Zusammenfassung In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance from his work unit and the police, as Deng Xiaoping clamped down on 'Spiritual Pollution'.

Product details

• Authors: Ma Jian, Jian Ma, Jian Ma, Ma Jian
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.05.2002
• EAN: 9780099283294
• ISBN: 978-0-09-928329-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Reiseberichte, Reiseerinnerungen (div.), China : Berichte, Erinnerungen, China, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Travel writing, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China