Red Dust A Path Through China

Name: Red Dust A Path Through China
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ISBN: 9780385720236

ISBN-10: 0385720238

ISBN-13: 9780385720236

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Authors: Ma Jian

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In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for “Spiritual Pollution,” and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey would last three years and take him through smog-choked cities and mountain villages, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility. Remarkably written and subtly moving, the result is an insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both insider and outsider in his own…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/12/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Ma Jian was born in 1953 in Qingdoo, China. In 1986 he moved to Hong Kong, where he published novels, essays, short stories & collections of poetry & reportage; edited political & cultural magazines & founded a publishing company. He currently lives in London.



A Note on Names



Red Walls


53 Nanxiao Lane


The Frozen Blue Sky


A Man of Thirty


Men in the Dark


Writing My Self-Criticism


Mixing Blood and Urine


Launch of the Campaign Against Spiritual Pollution


Back in the Public Security Bureau


Leaving Nanxiao Lane



Dust Storm


Emerging from the Gate of Hell


First Steps


Living in the Night


The Gold-Digger


Stuck in Suoyang


Resting in the Gale


The Living and the Dead


Lure of the Distance



Drifting Through the West


Hairdressing in Golmud


Fishing on Qinghai Lake


Racing Down the Ravine


Meeting Ma Youshan


The Girl in the Red Blouse



A Country in Ferment


Back to the City


Night Sprinkler


River of Ghosts



The Wind-Blown Soil


City of Tombs


Lost in the Wastes


Flies in Scrambled Eggs



Wandering Down the Coast


House of Memories


Time Is Money


Day and Night


Building a Park Within a Park


The Opening Ceremony Becomes the Closing Ceremony


Walking to the End of the World



The Abandoned Valleys


The Silent Beat of the Drum


Entering a Strange Circle


Abyss of Desire


Rain Over the Leprosy Camp


Mountains Behind Mountains



Life at the Border


Old Shabalu


Into the Jungle


From Traveller to Fugitive


Selling Chiffon Scarves in a Traffic Jam



A Land with No Home


Buddha and the City


Same Path, Different Directions


The Woman and the Blue Sky


In the Sky, on the Road


Road and Direction