Writer Ma Jian Disinvited by HK Venue [Update]
Update (November 9, 2018 at 9:52 am PST): Following reports that a proposed replacement venue...
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“Five Star Billionaire” And Other Must-Read Books
Tash Aw, a writer born in Taipei who grew up in Kuala Lumpur before moving to England, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel, “Five Star Billionaire,” a fictional self-help book for social climbers...
Book Recommendations From Ma Jian
Exiled Chinese author Ma Jian, whose newest novel The Dark Road saw its North American release yesterday, gave a very personal interview to the Daily Beast. The interview touches on everything from the...
One-Child Policy and Class Divide
Film director Zhang Yimou was accused earlier this month of violating China’s one-child policy, reportedly fathering as many as seven children with four different women. In a New York Times op-ed, author Ma Jian explains...
Ma Jian: China’s Barbaric One-Child Policy
More than 30 years have gone by since the introduction of China’s one-child policy in response to the Mao-era population boom. At The Guardian, author Ma Jian condemns the policy’s corrosive social effects, and the...
‘The Dark Road’ and Ma Jian on Censorship
Following the UK release of his latest novel, The Dark Road, the Index on Censorship talks to exiled writer Ma Jian about his career, Beijing’s longstanding ban on his work, the value of free expression, the legacy of...
The Gray Zone
In the New York Times, Louisa Lim and Jeffrey Wasserstrom write about the ways Chinese writers work around censorship restrictions: Exactly how Chinese writers navigate this complex political landscape can be seen in a single...
Self-Censorship a “Potent Poison” for China’s Writers
For The New York Times’ Latitude blog, Eric Abrahamsen highlights Chinese novelist-in-exile Ma Jian, who once called out writers within China for complying with the country’s repressive political system, and explores...
Exiled Author Ma Jian Banned from Visiting China
Author Ma Jian has been refused entry to China on a book-buying trip to Shenzhen. Given the country’s current political climate, he says, this was a development he had feared. From Tania Branigan in The Guardian: Citing...
Ma Jian: “In China, I Feel Kafka’s Presence Everywhere.”
Author Ma Jian tells The Wall Street Journal which five writers he’d most like to meet: Franz Kafka “To me, Kafka is the most alive of dead writers, no doubt because of his acute understanding of the modern...
Novelist ‘Astonished’ over Tiananmen
Asia Times interviews author Ma Jian: ATol: Beijing Coma also covers the decade after Tiananmen Square. What surprised you most about what happened in those years and thereafter? What changes did you expect after Tiananmen...
Ma Jian (马建): It Doesn’t Pay to Appease China
In Japan Times, author Ma Jian writes about the arrest of Liu Xiaobo, Google, and China’s growing economic clout: History is said to repeat itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. And it is indeed farcical for...
Ma Jian: The Great Tiananmen Taboo
From the Guardian: The amnesia to which China has succumbed is not the result of natural memory-loss but of state-enforced erasure. China’s Communist regime tolerates no mention of the massacre. But Tiananmen Square, and...
Melissa Holbrook Pierson: Strong Medicine
From The Nation: In a 2004 piece by the Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, recently exhibited at the Guggenheim, a pack of life-size tigers writhe in midair, bristling with scores of arrows. They should be dead, with all those...
China’s New Freedom Fighters
As part of its Olympic run-up coverage, The Guardian interviews six of China’s most prominent activists and dissidents: novelist Ma Jian, AIDS activist Wan Yanhai, human rights lawyer Li Fangping, environmentalist Dai...
Tiananmen’s Wake
In the New Yorker, Pankaj Mishra reviews Ma Jian’s new novel, Beijing Coma: Ma Jian writes about China with the obsessiveness of a writer in exile who cares about only one society. There is no doubting his passion and...
The West is Doing China No Favours by Rushing to Apologise for Every Perceived Slur
On The Guardian’s blog, writer Ma Jian calls on Western corporations and governments to become true friends to China, in the Confucian sense, and stop apologizing: All this makes me think of a book that came out in 1996,...
Ma Jian: China’s Grief, Unearthed
Author Ma Jian writes in the New York Times about the need to grieve, not only for the victims of the recent earthquake, but for those killed on June 4: Watched on television screens around the world, the Tiananmen massacre was...
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