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Red Dust: A Path Through China Paperback - 2002
by Jian, Ma
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A uniquely magnetic work of travel writing, "Red Dust" is one of the most intimate portraits of modern China to reach Western readers. In this unforgettable travelogue, Jian pays tribute to this incredible landscape while offering an invigorating meditation on the universal questions of love, truth, and freedom. Illustrations.
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- Title Red Dust: A Path Through China
- Author Jian, Ma
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2002
- Features Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0385720238I5N00
- ISBN 9780385720236 / 0385720238
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.15 x 0.7 in (20.40 x 13.08 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects China - Description and travel, Ma, Jian - Travel - China
- Dewey Decimal Code 915.104
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From the publisher
First line
Last year, in the spring of 1981, my work unit moved me from the staff dormitory block to a small house in Nanxiao Lane.
From the jacket flap
In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for "Spiritual Pollution," and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey would last three years and take him through smog-choked cities and mountain villages, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility. Remarkably written and subtly moving, the result is an insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both insider and outsider in his own country could have written.
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