Ma Jian Quotes
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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.
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.
Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.
I don't know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.
I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.