Ma Jian
Birth date: August 18, 1953
Ma Jian's Books
Earthy and at times, gut wrenching.
Ma Jian is a Chinese writer and a dissident. He was born in 1953, so he is part of the generation of Chinese who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution as children and young adults, as well as seeing the implementation -- and the limitations -- of Deng Xiaoping's Open Door economic policy. Ma has ...
The Noodle Maker deserves way better than its current 3.33 rating. It consists of several loosely interconnected short stories, sometimes with a touch of surreal, often with a delicious dark humor, and mostly absurd.A satire of the Chinese society affected by the Open Door Policy (instituted by Den...
Story of an artist in 80s China, fed up with the restraints of the Party and city, who travels around China. Although he describes his journey, it all feels very disjointed. Despite some maps, you don't always have enough of an idea where he is (and I have travelled to some of the same places). And ...
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