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Red Dust

By: Ma Jian

Narrated by: William Rycroft

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In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Deng Xiaoping was clamping down on 'Spiritual Pollution'; young people were rebelling. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself.
The result is a compelling and utterly unique insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both an insider and an outsider in his own country could have written.
‘Honest, raw, insightful... The Chinese equivalent of On the Road’ TIME©2001 Ma Jian (P)2014 W.F. Howes Ltd

Ma JianWilliam RycroftW. F. Howes Ltd

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"His trek through China to Tibet is a beautiful, disturbing read – a new Wild Swans" (Observer)

"Honest, raw, insightful... The Chinese equivalent of On the Road" (Time)

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