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Blending fact and fiction,  this darkly comic fable "may be the purest distillation yet of Mr. Ma's talent for probing the country's darkest corners and exposing what he regards as the Communist Party's moral failings" (Mike Ives,  The New York Times).Called "Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegut . . . powerful!" by Margaret Atwood on Twitter, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, is...

Believable and brutal, this is Ma Jian's boldest...most elegiac work' Financial Times, Book of the Year ' '[A] stinging satire from a novelist in exile' Margaret Atwood via TwitterBiting insight into Chinese totalitarianism from the critically acclaimed author of Beijing Coma and Red Dust.In seven dream-like episodes, Ma Jian - the banned Chinese writer hailed as 'China's Solzhenitsyn' - charts the psychological disintegration of a government ...

A biting and humane novel of stunning concision in which buried dreams and past betrayals erupt into the present moment, a feverish and darkly funny vision of contemporary Chinese society Bleakly funny, incisive, stinging and - in its most destabilising passages - gut-wrenching, CHINA DREAM, brilliantly translated by Flora Drew, is set at a time when reality and dystopia have begun to bleed into one another. 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of...

Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China. He is the author of seven novels, a travel memoir, three story collections and two essay collections. He has been translated into twenty-six languages. Since the publication of his first book in 1987, all his work has been banned in China. He now lives in exile in London

Meili, a young peasant woman is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of the great sage Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate to carry on his illustrious line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm into the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter are forced to make a fugitive life on the r...

A young Chinese man recounts his disillusionment with the Communist system, and his extraordinary journey around China in search of himself, and of his nation's true identity.

Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China. He is the author of seven novels, a travel memoir, three story collections and two essay collections. He has been translated into twenty-six languages. Since the publication of his first book in 1987, all his work has been banned in China. He now lives in exile in London

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When this book was published in Chinese in 1997, the government accused Ma Jian of "harming the fraternal solidarity of the national minorities, " and a blanket ban was placed on his future work. With its publication in English, including a new Afterword by the author that sets the book in its personal and political context, readers get a rare glimpse of Tibet through Chinese eyes.

Famously banned in China in 1987, STICK OUT YOUR TONGUE is the book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile, and still makes it difficult for him to publish his work in China today. Written shortly after the journey to Tibet he describes so vividly in his prize-winning travel memoir Red Dust, it is an extraordinary collection of stories about an extraordinary place - a picture of Tibet that is both enchanting and horrifying, violent and beautifu...

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...

From one of world literature's most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China's one-child policyFar away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland, where life goes on much as it has for generations, with one extraordinary difference: "normal” parents are permitted by the state to have only a single child. Written while Ma Jian traveled the rural backwaters of so...

Dai Wei has been unconscious for almost a decade. A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June, 1989, he was caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. As the millennium draws near, a sparrow flies through the window and lands on Dai Wei's naked chest, a sign that he must emerge from his coma. But China has also undergone a massive transformation while Dai Wei lay unconscious. As he prepares to take ...

A strange and seminal novel about the Tiananmen Sqaure protests. Dai Wei is a medical student who is caught by a bullet whilst protesting and falls into a deep coma for almost a decade, waking to find the China he once knew has changed, irrevocably and forever. A story of politics, madness, mothers and dreamworlds, this is an acknowledged modern masterpiece of Chinese literature. 'Made my heart thump.' "TLS".

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