Ma Jian

Ma Jian
Copyright Flora Drew

Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China, in 1953. He worked as a watch-mender’s apprentice, a painter of propaganda boards, and a photojournalist. At the age of thirty, he left his job and traveled for three years across China. In 1987 he completed Stick Out Your Tongue, which prompted the Chinese government to ban his future work. Ma Jian left Beijing for Hong Kong in 1987 as a dissident, but he continued to travel to China, and he supported the pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. After the handover of Hong Kong he moved to Germany and then London, where he now lives.


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Beijing Coma
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Ma Jian; Translated by Flora Drew
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Stick Out Your Tongue
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Ma Jian; Translated by Flora Drew; Afterword by the Author
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When Stick Out Your Tongue was published in Chinese in 1997, a blanket ban was placed on Ma Jian's future work. With its publication in English, readers get a...


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Ma Jian; Translated by Flora Drew
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