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| Title | : | Red Dust: A Path Through China |
| Author | : | Ma Jian |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 336 pages |
| Published | : | November 12th 2002 by Anchor (first published 2001) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. China. Travel. Nonfiction. Asia. Biography. History |
Ma Jian
Paperback | Pages: 336 pages Rating: 3.87 | 1833 Users | 152 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | Red Dust: A Path Through China |
| ISBN: | 0385720238 (ISBN13: 9780385720236) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (2002), Kiriyama Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2001) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Red Dust: A Path Through China
Ratings: 3.87 From 1833 Users | 152 ReviewsColumn Appertaining To Books Red Dust: A Path Through China
It took along time for me to 'get into' this book, and it'll be put on my 'to read again' shelf, as I feel I didn't enjoy it as much as I could have. The journey was an interesting one, and the author offers a great insight to lives-but he didn't exactly endear himself to me, and I feel he coated the book with a layer of depression as fine as the desert sand.as you might expect, themes and emotions run to peaks and valleys in this story, but by the end the most unexpected thing that i took away from it was the insight of ever-evolving episodes of and musings on friends, longevity, inevitability, persistence, and spirituality. it's interesting to follow ma's logic and reasoning as they balance, repel and retreat from one another. extreme situations threaten his physical safety and most of his relationships, and his perceptions and reactions to these
Ma Jians account of his three-year journey around China is classified as a travel book. But it is most certainly not the typical best sites, best restaurants, kind of travel book. Instead, Red Dust is a fascinating look at China, especially rural China, at a unique period in history, the early 1980s. This look comes from the point of view of a young man who was one Chinas Beat Generation of poets, musicians, artists, and writers which emerged following the end of the Cultural Revolution, Maos
Fascinating, infuriating, horrifying and deeply moving. Recommend.
very good portrait of China in the 90ths. i traveled a lot in china since 1989 till now and this is on of the best i read. Ma Jian have the rare ability to mix a love for land and its people while being critic with its leaders and system. amazing writer. even i found it tiring to read some other novels of him.
An outsider's voice, a very lonely voice, but be warned: this is a book of meditation, of soul searching (both his own soul and the soul of his country) - not a classic travelogue.I'm struck by the similarities here with the Noble Prize winning Soul Mountain, both are a kind of meditative travelogue of Chinese artists who feel alienated in their own country and are searching for identity. Whereas Soul Mountain seems to just tip over towards the fiction, this book leans just a bit more towards
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