· Red Dust by Ma Jian. In , 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. Red Dust: A Path Through China Kindle Edition. by. Ma Jian (Author) › Visit Amazon's Ma Jian Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Ma Jian (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. out of 5 stars. 33 ratings/5(33). · Red Dust by Ma Jian. Review by Sam Ruddock. The essence of good travel writing lies in duality: in the balance between the external journey through a physical landscape and the personal journey which takes place alongside it. It is not enough simply to travel through a country meeting people and visiting places, then recounting anecdotes so as Estimated Reading Time: 9 mins.
Red Dust. Buy from. Celebrated Chinese writer Ma Jian sets off on an extraordinary journey around China in search of himself and his country. In , 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. Non-fiction - Kindle edition; CCV Digital; pages; Translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew. I'm not a huge fan of travelogues, but I decided to read Red Dust based on the strength of Ma Jian's superb novel Beijing Coma and Max Cairnduff's excellent review.. I read it on my Kindle while in China last month, and found much of Jian's descriptions, particularly of places I had. Artist Ma Jian's account of his trek through China to Tibet, Red Dust, is a beautiful, disturbing read - a new Wild Swans P h i l i p M a r s d e n Sat 9 Jun EDT.
Red Dust is the travelogue of a Chinese man called Ma Jian, who in left Beijing to travel overland around his own country of China. Make no mistake about it: Red Dust is the tale of a real vagabond. Red Dust: A Path Through China Ma Jian Chatto Windus £12, pp On 18 August the Chinese poet and painter Ma Jian turns His ex-wife has just pronounced him a political criminal and. So it is with Red Dust, a book subtitled ‘A Path Through China’ but as much a tale of Ma Jian’s quest to find himself as an artist and a man as anything else. Because of this, his panoramic, three year tour of China provides a wonderful insight into the nature of that vast country and the people who live there.
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