New Releases by Ma Jian

Ma Jian is the author of 自由张展 Free Zhang Zhan (2024), El sueño chino / China Dream (2022), El Sueño Chino (2022), Il sogno cinese (2021), O Sonho Da China (2021).

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自由张展 Free Zhang Zhan

release date: May 13, 2024
自由张展 Free Zhang Zhan
中国基督徒律师张展在2020年2月初从上海赶赴新冠疫情封控下的武汉实地采访报道,三个多月后被警方以涉嫌寻衅滋事罪名抓捕、带回上海羁押,2020年12月被以同一罪名判刑四年。张展在看守所、监狱长期绝食抗议,数度传出病危消息。张展非凡的勇气与决绝的抗争不仅鼓舞了海内外无数中国人,也引起国际社会强烈关注。中共当局对张展的残酷迫害暴露出其掩盖真相、言论审查的罪恶,引起各国强烈谴责。 《自由张展》汇集张展发布于网络的文章、自媒体帖子、访谈和声援张展的诗文,回顾张展案经过、张展狱中的抗争及其在海内外所激起的反响,在2024年5月张展刑满获释前出版。 本书从一个侧面保存记录了中国新冠疫情武汉封城的历史。张展的观察思考、抗争、遭受迫害的经历,反映了良知者在极权下追求真理的困境和中国人权法治状况。张展案尤其是她在被捕后长期绝食抗议的行为在中国维权群体中、信仰群体中激起了极大反响。在当下中国高压的环境下,声援张展行动本身凝聚了力量,促进了讨论,激发了勇气,鼓舞了人心。张展的文章和声援她的文字在中国都已被审查,更显得书中备份保存下来的民间的声音弥足珍贵。 本书电子版供免费下载、传播,希望能被尽可能多的中国民众看到,揭露真相,拒绝遗忘。愿本书启迪更多人思考中国的制度问题,探索在高压下继续努力争取自由、人权、尊严的路径。

El sueño chino / China Dream

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jun 21, 2022
El sueño chino / China Dream
El Orwell de la literatura china nos brinda una sátira distópica de la China actual: una fábula poética e inquebrantable sobre el totalitarismo y la supresión de la Historia. «Los tiranos chinos nunca se han limitado a controlar la vida de la gente; siempre han perseguido penetrar en la mente de las personas y remodelarla desde dentro». La República Popular China ha logrado desarrollar una tecnología que permite registrar los sueños de sus ciudadanos y sustituirlos por otros. El objetivo es promover el Sueño Chino de rejuvenecimiento nacional del presidente Xi Jinping. Ma Daode, un corrupto y lujurioso funcionario, ha sido nombrado director del proyecto después de décadas de servicio leal al Partido. Pero justo cuando está a punto de presentar un innovador implante cerebral que reemplazará los recuerdos traumáticos con un sueño colectivo de supremacía nacional, su cordura comienza a desmoronarse. A su mente acuden dolorosos flashbacks: pesadillas de la Revolución Cultural que amenazarán con destruir su aspiración a un futuro glorioso. Esta fábula oscuramente cómica es una visión distópica de la represión, la supresión de la Historia y la amnesia impuesta por el Estado chino; una inquebrantable sátira ambientada en la China actual de la mano de quien, según el Financial Times, «no en vano ha sido llamado el Orwell y el Solzhenitsyn de la literatura china». ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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 feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people''s private dreams with President Xi Jinping''s great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode''s nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. Exposing the damage inflicted on a nation''s soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth, China Dream is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state–imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.

El Sueño Chino

by: Ma Jian
release date: Feb 03, 2022
El Sueño Chino
El Orwell de la literatura china nos brinda una sátira distópica de la China actual: una fábula poética e inquebrantable sobre el totalitarismo y la supresión de la Historia. «Los tiranos chinos nunca se han limitado a controlar la vida de la gente; siempre han perseguido penetrar en la mente de las personas y remodelarla desde dentro». La República Popular China ha logrado desarrollar una tecnología que permite registrar los sueños de sus ciudadanos y sustituirlos por otros. El objetivo es promover el Sueño Chino de rejuvenecimiento nacional del presidente Xi Jinping. Ma Daode, un corrupto y lujurioso funcionario, ha sido nombrado director del proyecto después de décadas de servicio leal al Partido. Pero justo cuando está a punto de presentar un innovador implante cerebral que reemplazará los recuerdos traumáticos con un sueño colectivo de supremacía nacional, su cordura comienza a desmoronarse. A su mente acuden dolorosos flashbacks: pesadillas de la Revolución Cultural que amenazarán con destruir su aspiración a un futuro glorioso. Esta fábula oscuramente cómica es una visión distópica de la represión, la supresión de la Historia y la amnesia impuesta por el Estado chino; una inquebrantable sátira ambientada en la China actual de la mano de quien, según el Financial Times, «no en vano ha sido llamado el Orwell y el Solzhenitsyn de la literatura china». La crítica ha dicho: «Una de las voces más importantes y valerosas de la literatura china.» Gao Xingjian, Premio Nobel de Literatura «Un cruce entre los Guardias Rojos y una especie de Kurt Vonnegut: ¡poderoso!... Una punzante sátira de un novelista en el exilio.» Margaret Atwood, vía Twitter «Una salvaje sátira del autoritarismo y la censura chinos... Ma es muy explícito y, para un hombre de conocido comportamiento tranquilo, un intérprete de China más enfurecido que sus compatriotas... Verosímil y brutal, este es su trabajo más audaz, y, a pesar de su brevedad, el más elegíaco.» Financial Times «Escandaloso[...] Noen vano se le ha llamado el Orwell y el Solzhenitsyn de la literatura china.» Libro del año del Financial Times « El sueño chino es más aguda, en cuanto a alegoría política, que sus novelas anteriores. Crepita con una sátira contundente de la oficialidadchina y un ingenio mordaz que recuerda vagamente el arrebato de Gary Shteyngart hacia los oligarcas rusos en Absurdistán, o incluso los retratos de Nikolai Gogol de los aristócratas provincianos de Rusia en Almas muertas... El sueño chino puede ser la destilación más pura hasta el momento del talento de Ma para sondear los rincones más ocursos del paísy exponer lo que él llama las "fallas morales" del Partido Comunista.» Mike Ives , The New York Times «Una obra maestra de la sátira política.» Kirkus Review of Books «Espeluznantemente orwelliano... hace que la Revolución Cultural de Mao parezca un pequeño divertimento.» Mail on Sunday «Una acusación abrasadora y audaz de la China actual, y una exposición lírica de la falsa utopía creada por el Partido Comunista y su actual líder vitalicio, Xi Jinping... [ El sueño chino] es una confrontación ingeniosa, pero poderosa, del pasado y el presente de China.» Publishers Weekly

Il sogno cinese

by: Ma Jian
release date: Feb 17, 2021
Il sogno cinese
Ma Daode è un mediocre politico di provincia. Fedele al Partito e devoto ammiratore del presidente Xi Jinping, è ricco e corrotto, ha dodici amanti principali, “le Dodici Forcine di Jinling”, come le fanciulle del romanzo della Dinastia Qing, Il sogno della camera rossa. Accanito sostenitore della causa del “Sogno cinese” e della visione di “Ringiovanimento del Paese” di Xi Jinping, dal suo Ufficio Rotondo, di pochi metri più piccolo del più celebre Studio Ovale, lavora perché il sogno cinese diventi globale. Ha un problema, però, Ma Daode: durante la Rivoluzione culturale, come tante giovani Guardie rosse ha commesso parecchi crimini, e i sogni del suo passato, che fino a oggi lo hanno tormentato nel sonno, adesso si presentano anche di giorno, sotto forma di allucinazioni, rendendogli la vita sempre più difficile. Vorrebbe così tanto smettere di sognare questo doloroso passato che il governo ha rimosso dalla coscienza collettiva di tutto il Paese, da proporsi volontario per un impianto cerebrale di un dispositivo che garantisce il completo lavaggio del cervello. Inevitabilmente Ma Daode finisce per precipitare nella follia, e la sua disgregazione rispecchia quella di un popolo disposto a cancellare a ogni costo la propria storia perché accecato da materialismo, infantilismo, violenza e bugie.

O Sonho Da China

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jan 01, 2021

China Dream

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jun 09, 2020
China Dream
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 feeling pleased with himself. He has an impressive office, three properties, and multiple mistresses who text him day and night. After decades of loyal service, he has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with replacing people''s private dreams with President Xi Jinping''s great China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a mass golden wedding anniversary celebration, his sanity begins to unravel. Suddenly plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, Ma Daode''s nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. Exposing the damage inflicted on a nation''s soul when authoritarian regimes, driven by an insatiable hunger for power, seek to erase memory, rewrite history, and falsify the truth, China Dream is a dystopian vision of repression, violence, and state–imposed amnesia that is set not in the future, but in China today.

The Chinese Love Bible

by: Jian Ma
release date: Jan 20, 2016
The Chinese Love Bible
The Chinese Love Bible is a love guide written by Chinese Researcher Ma, Jian from Shenyang, China

La via oscura

by: Ma Jian
release date: Mar 10, 2015
La via oscura
Costretto all’esilio dal duca di Lu, Confucio disse: “Se la mia strada finisce salirò su una zattera e mi lascerò portare verso il mare”. E così Kongzi, settantaseiesimo discendente diretto del grande filosofo, fugge con la moglie incinta e la figlia quando la Squadra della pianificazione familiare entra nel villaggio per sterilizzare con la forza tutte le donne fertili e interrompere le gravidanze di quelle che hanno già un figlio. Mentre la Cina si avvia a diventare la prima potenza mondiale, Kongzi e Meili vanno alla deriva lungo lo Yangtze, portando il lettore in un disperato e poetico viaggio attraverso il paesaggio che si trasforma e la tragedia provocata dall’esperimento di ingegneria sociale concepito per contenere, a costo di qualsiasi violenza sul corpo delle donne, la crescita demografica del paese. Dal coraggioso autore di "Pechino in coma", le cui opere sono tuttora bandite in Cina, un nuovo romanzo che racconta il volto oscuro del miracolo economico cinese: la storia di Meili e della sua famiglia, in fuga dal governo cinese e dalla sua politica del figlio unico sul fiume Yangtze.

Chemins de poussière rouge

by: Ma Jian
release date: Aug 26, 2014
Chemins de poussière rouge
Victime de la répression menée par les autorités chinoises sur les artistes dans les années 1980, Ma Jian a trente ans quand il décide de quitter Beijing. Au cours d’un périple de trois ans, il découvre un pays aux multiples facettes déchiré entre ses traditions et les effets de sa modernisation. Des plaines de l’extrême ouest au Tibet aux côtes du sud, l’artiste-aventurier livre une vision sans concession du pays qui l’a vu naître, mais dans lequel il n’est plus qu’un étranger.

La route sombre

by: Ma Jian
release date: Aug 19, 2014
La route sombre
Jeune paysanne née au coeur de la Chine rurale, Meili est mariée à Kongzi, l’instituteur du village, lointain descendant de Confucius. Ensemble, ils ont une fille, mais Kongzi, qui veut à tout prix un fils pour poursuivre la lignée de sa célèbre famille, met à nouveau Meili enceinte, sans attendre la permission légale. Lorsque les agents de contrôle des naissances envahissent le village pour arrêter ceux qui ont transgressé les règles, père, mère et fille fuient vers le fleuve Yangtze. Ils commencent alors une longue cavale vers le Sud, à travers les paysages dévastés de la Chine, trouvant de menus travaux au passage, parfois réduits à mendier et obligés de se cacher des forces de l’ordre. Alors que le corps de Meili continue d’être pris d’assaut par son mari et que l’État cherche à le contrôler, elle se bat pour reprendre en main sa vie et celle de l’enfant à naître. Avec La route sombre, Ma Jian, célèbre dissident chinois, signe un roman bouleversant où la violence du contrôle social vous saisit de plein fouet. Titre original : The Dark Road, Éditeur original : Chatto & Windus ©Ma Jian, 2013. Tous droits réservés. Pour la traduction française : © Flammarion, 2014. En couverture : Photo : © Dennie Cody / Getty Images

El camino oscuro

by: Ma Jian
release date: Feb 13, 2014
El camino oscuro
La nueva novela de uno de los autores chinos más reconocidos en la actualidad. El camino oscuro narra la historia de Meili, una mujer china embarazada a punto de sufrir las consecuencias de la política de un solo hijo del país. Para evitarlo, se fuga con su marido y su hija por el río. Ma Jian retrata a lo largo de este viaje la situación de la mujer en China. La habilidad narrativa de Ma Jian se pone al servicio de un relato que podría complementar a su anterior obra, Pekín en coma, comparada con Archipiélago Gulag, de Solzhenitsyn.

Cenneti Öldürmek

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jan 01, 2014
Cenneti Öldürmek
Als een vrouw zwanger is van haar tweede kind, vanaf 1979 verboden in China, gaat ze met haar man en dochtertje de Yangtze op om te ontkomen aan de overheidsfunctionarissen die voor niets terugdeinzen.

The Dark Road

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jun 13, 2013
The Dark Road
From one of world literature’s most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China’s one-child policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from its reach Far 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. The Dark Road is the story of one such “normal” family—Meili, a young peasant woman; her husband, Kongzi, a village schoolteacher; and their daughter, Nannan. Kongzi is, according to family myth, a direct lineal descendant of Confucius, and he is haunted by the imperative to carry on the family name by having a son. And so Meili becomes pregnant again without state permission, and when local family planning officials launch a new wave of crackdowns, the family makes the radical decision to leave its village and set out on a small, rickety houseboat down the Yangtze River. Theirs is a dark road, and tragedy awaits them, and horror, but also the fierce beauty born of courageous resistance to injustice and inhumanity. The Dark Road is a haunting and indelible portrait of the tragedies befalling women and families at the hands of China’s one-child policy and of the human spirit’s capacity to endure even the most brutal cruelty. While Ma Jian wrote The Dark Road, he traveled through the rural backwaters of southwestern China to see how the state enforced the one-child policy far from the outside world’s prying eyes. He met local women who had been seized from their homes and forced to undergo abortions or sterilization in the policy’s name; and on the Yangtze River, he lived among fugitive couples who had gone on the run so they could have more children, that most fundamental of human rights. Like all of Ma Jian’s novels, The Dark Road is also a celebration of the life force, of the often comically stubborn resilience of man’s most basic instincts.

A Study on the Present Status and Issues of Organic Paddy Rice Expansion in Northeast Semi-arid Region of China

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jan 01, 2013

Pekín en coma

by: Ma Jian
release date: Oct 20, 2011
Pekín en coma
La esperada novela sobre la historia reciente de China. Una obre que desafía al olvido y al gobierno chino. Dai Wei está en coma desde hace una década. Dai Wei, estudiante chino de medicina, recibió un balazo en la cabeza cuando se manifestaba en la plaza Tiananmen en junio de 1989. Tan pronto como las autoridades del hospital averiguaron que era un activista contra el régimen comunista, obligaron a su madre a llevárselo a casa. Y allí se encuentra desde entonces, atrapado en su propio cuerpo, pero capaz de entender lo que sucede a su alrededor. Y de recordar; la memoria es lo que le salvará del destierro espiritual. Dai Wei rememora la historia de su padre -un violinista que sufrió las atrocidades cometidas en los campos de trabajo-, retrata a las tres mujeres que amó y recuerda los libros que despertaron su pasión por la literatura. Entre tales fragmentosde su vida se mueve hasta el día en que, a modo de señal propia del mismísimo Hamlet, un gorrión aparece en la ventana de su habitación y se posa en su pecho, anunciando la llegada de un cambio.

Pechino è in coma

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jun 03, 2009
Pechino è in coma
Dai Wei, in coma da dieci anni, è doppiamente prigioniero. Il 4 giugno 1989 è stato colpito alla testa da un proiettile durante la rivolta di piazza Tienanmen. Da allora “vive” su un letto di ferro: prigioniero del proprio corpo, prigioniero della polizia, che aspetta il suo risveglio per arrestarlo.Tutto ciò che rimane a Dai Wei per non perdere il contatto con il mondo è la sua acutissima sensibilità per le piccole cose che gli succedono intorno e una dolorosa e poetica capacità di dialogare con il proprio corpo. Mentre Dai Wei giace, immobile nel cambiamento, assistito dalla madre, la capitale della Cina cambia e lui ripercorre i giorni della rivolta studentesca – ma anche il decennio della Rivoluzione culturale – attraverso i ricordi: le mobilitazioni degli universitari di Beijing e le interminabili discussioni politiche, gli slogan gridati e i sentimenti sussurrati con riserbo. E intanto, forse, si risveglia a un nuovo inizio, mentre l’isolato dove si trova la piccola casa in cui abita viene abbattuto, con la veccia Cina che muore, per far posto a uno stadio, il Nido, per le Olimpiadi del 2008.

Beijing Coma / druk 1

by: Ma Jian
release date: May 01, 2009
Beijing Coma / druk 1
In 1999 ligt een Chinese student al tien jaar in coma in zijn moeders flat in Beijing, sinds hij bij de op 4 juni 1989 door het leger neergeslagen studentendemonstraties door een kogel in zijn hoofd is geraakt.

Tira fuori la lingua

by: Ma Jian
release date: Aug 20, 2008
Tira fuori la lingua
Uno scrittore cinese con alle spalle un matrimonio fallito parte per il Tibet. Durante i suoi vagabondaggi assiste alla sepoltura celeste di una ragazza morta di parto, divide la tenda con un nomade diretto a una montagna sacra a chiedere perdono per aver avuto rapporti sessuali con la figlia, incontra un orafo che tiene appeso alla parete di una caverna il corpo della sua amante incartapecorito dal vento, ascolta la storia di una giovane lama morta durante un rito di iniziazione. Nell’aria rarefatta dell’altopiano il confine tra realtà e finzione narrativa si assottiglia fino a immergere il protagonista in un mondo così diverso da tormentarlo anche in sogno.Messo clamorosamente all’indice in Cina nel 1987 e soltanto ora pubblicato in Italia, Tira fuori la lingua ha costretto Ma Jian all’esilio, rendendogli impossibile ancora oggi pubblicare nel suo paese. Scritto poco dopo il viaggio in Tibet, raccontato in maniera vivida nel romanzo Polvere rossa, il libro è una straordinaria raccolta di racconti che parlano di un luogo davvero speciale, un Tibet incantevole e insieme terrificante, violento e bellissimo, perverso e seducente.“Tira fuori la lingua è un libro volgare e osceno che diffama l’immagine dei nostri compatrioti tibetani. Ma Jian non è in grado di descrivere i grandi passi avanti compiuti dal popolo tibetano nella realizzazione di un Tibet socialista unito e prospero. Il ritratto del Tibet che esce da quest’opera sudicia e ignobile non ha nulla a che vedere con la realtà, e altro non è che il prodotto dell’immaginazione dell’autore e del suo desiderio ossessivo di sesso e soldi... A nessuno dev’essere permesso leggere questo libro. Tutte le copie devono essere confiscate e distrutte immediatamente.”Annuncio della messa al bando dell’opera in Cina

Beijing Coma

by: Ma Jian
release date: May 27, 2008
Beijing Coma
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 struck by a soldier''s bullet and fell into a deep coma. As soon as the hospital authorities discovered that he had been an activist, his mother was forced to take him home. She allowed pharmacists access to his body and sold his urine and his left kidney to fund special treatment from Master Yao, a member of the outlawed Falun Gong sect. But during a government crackdown, the Master was arrested, and Dai Wai''s mother—who had fallen in love with him—lost her mind. 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 leave of his old metal bed, Dai Wei realizes that the rich, imaginative world afforded to him as a coma patient is a startling contrast with the death-in-life of the world outside. At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma is Ma Jian''s masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty, and deep rage, this extraordinary novel confirms his place as one of the world''s most significant living writers.

Red Dust

by: Ma Jian
release date: Dec 18, 2007
Red Dust
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.

Stick Out Your Tongue

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jul 24, 2007
Stick Out Your Tongue
Tibet is a land lost in the glare of politics and romanticism, and Ma Jian set out to discover its truths. Stick Out Your Tongue is a revelation: a startlingly vivid portrait of Tibet, both enchanting and horrifying, beautiful and violent, seductive and perverse. In this profound work of fiction, a Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter, meets a silversmith who has hung the wind-dried corpse of his lover on the wall of his cave, and hears the story of a young female incarnate lama who died during a Buddhist initiation rite. In the thin air of the high plateau, the divide between dream and reality becomes confused. 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—and a window on the imagination of one of China''s foremost writers.

The Noodle Maker

by: Ma Jian
release date: Apr 04, 2006
The Noodle Maker
From Ma Jian, the highly acclaimed Chinese dissident, comes a satirical novel about the absurdities of life in a post-Tiananmen China. Two men meet for dinner each week. Over the course of one of these drunken evenings, the writer recounts the stories he would write, had he the courage: a young man buys an old kiln and opens a private crematorium, delighting in his ability to harass the corpses of police officers and Party secretaries, while swooning to banned Western music; a heartbroken actress performs a public suicide by stepping into the jaws of a wild tiger, watched nonchalantly by her ex-lover. Extraordinary characters inspire him, their lives pulled and pummeled by fate and politics, as if they are balls of dough in the hands of an all-powerful noodle maker. Ma Jian''s satirical masterpiece allows us a humorous, yet profound, glimpse of those struggling to survive under a system that dictates their every move.

Spaghetti cinesi

by: Jian Ma
release date: Jan 01, 2006

Measurements of Particle Sizes and Velocities in Plasma Spray Using Phase Doppler Anemometry

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jan 01, 2004

Polvere rossa

by: Jian Ma
release date: Jan 01, 2002

Rødt støv

by: Jian Ma
release date: Jan 01, 2002
Rødt støv
Fortelleren i "Rødt støv" er en kinesisk bohem, som tidlig avslører sin svakhet for "malerier, bøker og kvinner". Dette fører til stadige problemer med myndighetene. Ma Jin forlater Beijing på midten av 1980-tallet. Han har et havarert ekteskap bak seg, ser ut til miste jobben og frykter en mulig fengsling - det er på tide å dra. Med lite annet enn et klesskift, to såpestykker, en notisbok, et kamera og Walt Whitmans "Leaves of Grass" reiser han vestover på en ferd som skal vare i tre år. Turen bringer ham gjennom ukjente deler av Kina, Myanmar og Tibet, og den gir ham tid til å fordype seg i hva det vil si å være buddhist, å leve i tiden etter Maos død - eller for den saks skyld å være Ma Jian. Han oppsøker alt fra skoler og fabrikker til ruinbyer og minoritetsfolk. Han haiker med lokale bønder og diskuterer med andre opposisjonelle. Han skildrer alt fra stanken på toalettene til maten han får servert og kvinnene han møter.

La mendicante di Shigatze

by: Ma Jian
release date: Jan 01, 1991

Chienne de vie!

by: Jian Ma
release date: Jan 01, 1991
Chienne de vie!
Au cours de la révolution culturelle, Monsieur Xu, professeur de dessin, a connu la déchéance et payé d''exclusion son "droitisme". Dix ans ont passé. Le narrateur, son ancien élève, est en route vers celui qui demeure, dans sa mémoire, un maître adulé et haï... Lorsque parurent ses nouvelles "tibétaines", La Mendiante de Shigatze, Ma Jian avait étonné par l''audace et l''efficacité de ses descriptions. Cette fois, c''est la violence de ses aveux qui fascine. A petites touches furtives, parfois coupables jusqu''à la nausée, une confession prend forme. La trahison, la corruption d''un idéal, la profanation que le temps inflige à la pureté des premiers élans - tel est, sous la critique du régime chinois, le véritable sujet de ce livre. Et c''est ici composé avec un sens de "l''impressionnisme" narratif qui révèle un écrivain dans le plein éclat de son talent.

La mendiante de Shigatze

by: Jian Ma
release date: Jan 01, 1988
La mendiante de Shigatze
"Tout là-haut, les Tibétains, minuscules, se meuvent lentement. Tout ce qui bouge : nuages blancs, troupeaux de moutons, chiens sauvages, "chevaux du vent" ; les femmes qui marchent avec leur enfant sur le dos, et moi-même, vagabond venu de Chine, tout ce qui vit se déplace comme dans un plan au ralenti. Là-haut, on souffre de maux de tête atroces. On sent une fente se creuser le long des tempes, on réalise alors que la fontanelle, en haut du front, peut à tout moment s''ouvrir comme le dôme d''un observatoire." (Page 43)
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