Ma Jian

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August 18, 1953 in Qingdao, China

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Literature & Fiction, Politics, Religion & Spirituality

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Ma Jian was born in Qingdao,China on the 18th of August 1953, not much is known or revealed about his early and formative years.

But in 1986, Ma moved to Kong 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....more

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Books by Ma Jian

Average rating: 3.67 · 1104 ratings · 223 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Red Dust: A Path Through China by Ma Jian, Flora Drew (Translator) 380 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Beijing Coma 377 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Noodle Maker: A Novel by Ma Jian, Flora Drew (Translator) 333 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian, Flora Drew (Translator) 360 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Spaghetti Cinesi 400 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Emerging Techniques In Power System Analysis by Zhaoyang Dong, Ma Jian, Pei Zhang 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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Quotes by Ma Jian

“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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