Author: Ma Jian

Quotes

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

- Ma Jian

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.

- Ma Jian

The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

- Ma Jian

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

- Ma Jian

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it.

- Ma Jian

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

- Ma Jian

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