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Ma Jian
Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China, in 1953. He is the author of Stick Out Your Tongue, four collections of short stories and essays, and six further novels. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. He now lives in exile in London. Since the banning of his first book thirty years ago, none of his works have been allowed to appear in China.


The Dark Side of the
Chinese Dream

Ma Jian on the Short Path from Utopia to Dystopia
June 3, 2019  By Ma Jian
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