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 country could have written.



Author: Ma Jian
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 11/12/2002
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.15w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780385720236

About the Author
Ma Jian was born in 1953 in Qingdao, China. He currently lives in London.