Red dust : a path through China /
Ma, Jian, 1953-
Red dust : a path through China / Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew. - vii, 324 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Maps on endpapers.
A Note on Names -- Red Walls -- 53 Nanxiao Lane -- The Frozen Blue Sky -- A Man of Thirty -- Men in the Dark -- Writing My Self-Criticism -- Mixing Blood and Urine -- Launch of the Campaign Against Spiritual Pollution -- Back in the Public Security Bureau -- Leaving Nanxiao Lane -- Dust Storm -- Emerging from the Gate of Hell -- First Steps -- Living in the Night -- The Gold-Digger -- Stuck in Suoyang -- Resting in the Gale -- The Living and the Dead -- Lure of the Distance -- Drifting Through the West -- Hairdressing in Golmud -- Fishing on Qinghai Lake -- Racing Down the Ravine -- Meeting Ma Youshan -- The Girl in the Red Blouse -- A Country in Ferment -- Back to the City -- Night Sprinkler -- River of Ghosts -- The Wind-Blown Soil -- City of Tombs -- Lost in the Wastes -- Flies in Scrambled Eggs -- Wandering Down the Coast -- House of Memories -- Time Is Money -- Day and Night -- Building a Park Within a Park -- The Opening Ceremony Becomes the Closing Ceremony -- Walking to the End of the World -- The Abandoned Valleys -- The Silent Beat of the Drum -- Entering a Strange Circle -- Abyss of Desire -- Rain Over the Leprosy Camp -- Mountains Behind Mountains -- Life at the Border -- Old Shabalu -- Into the Jungle -- From Traveller to Fugitive -- Selling Chiffon Scarves in a Traffic Jam -- A Land with No Home -- Buddha and the City -- Same Path, Different Directions -- The Woman and the Blue Sky -- In the Sky, on the Road -- Road and Direction. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. 8.. 9..
"In 1983 Ma Jian, a photographer, painter, poet, and writer, set out for the most remote and roughest parts of China. Dispirited and fearful, accused at work of having "a sluggish mentality," confronted with a failed marriage, an estranged young daughter and a girlfriend involved with another man, he abandons Beijing and a life he can no longer endure. Red Dust is the account of his travels."--BOOK JACKET.
0385720238 9780385720236 0375420592 9780375420597
2001021575
Ma, Jian, 1953- --Travel--China.
China--Description and travel
DS712 / .M325 2001
915.1045
Red dust : a path through China / Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew. - vii, 324 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Maps on endpapers.
A Note on Names -- Red Walls -- 53 Nanxiao Lane -- The Frozen Blue Sky -- A Man of Thirty -- Men in the Dark -- Writing My Self-Criticism -- Mixing Blood and Urine -- Launch of the Campaign Against Spiritual Pollution -- Back in the Public Security Bureau -- Leaving Nanxiao Lane -- Dust Storm -- Emerging from the Gate of Hell -- First Steps -- Living in the Night -- The Gold-Digger -- Stuck in Suoyang -- Resting in the Gale -- The Living and the Dead -- Lure of the Distance -- Drifting Through the West -- Hairdressing in Golmud -- Fishing on Qinghai Lake -- Racing Down the Ravine -- Meeting Ma Youshan -- The Girl in the Red Blouse -- A Country in Ferment -- Back to the City -- Night Sprinkler -- River of Ghosts -- The Wind-Blown Soil -- City of Tombs -- Lost in the Wastes -- Flies in Scrambled Eggs -- Wandering Down the Coast -- House of Memories -- Time Is Money -- Day and Night -- Building a Park Within a Park -- The Opening Ceremony Becomes the Closing Ceremony -- Walking to the End of the World -- The Abandoned Valleys -- The Silent Beat of the Drum -- Entering a Strange Circle -- Abyss of Desire -- Rain Over the Leprosy Camp -- Mountains Behind Mountains -- Life at the Border -- Old Shabalu -- Into the Jungle -- From Traveller to Fugitive -- Selling Chiffon Scarves in a Traffic Jam -- A Land with No Home -- Buddha and the City -- Same Path, Different Directions -- The Woman and the Blue Sky -- In the Sky, on the Road -- Road and Direction. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. 8.. 9..
"In 1983 Ma Jian, a photographer, painter, poet, and writer, set out for the most remote and roughest parts of China. Dispirited and fearful, accused at work of having "a sluggish mentality," confronted with a failed marriage, an estranged young daughter and a girlfriend involved with another man, he abandons Beijing and a life he can no longer endure. Red Dust is the account of his travels."--BOOK JACKET.
0385720238 9780385720236 0375420592 9780375420597
2001021575
Ma, Jian, 1953- --Travel--China.
China--Description and travel
DS712 / .M325 2001
915.1045