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Red dust : a path through China / Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Chinese Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books/Random House : Anchor Books/Random House, 2002Description: vii, 324 pages : maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385720238
  • 9780385720236
  • 0375420592
  • 9780375420597
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 915.1045 21
LOC classification:
  • DS712 .M325 2001
Contents:
A Note on Names -- 1.. 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 -- 2.. 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 -- 3.. Drifting Through the West -- Hairdressing in Golmud -- Fishing on Qinghai Lake -- Racing Down the Ravine -- Meeting Ma Youshan -- The Girl in the Red Blouse -- 4.. A Country in Ferment -- Back to the City -- Night Sprinkler -- River of Ghosts -- 5.. The Wind-Blown Soil -- City of Tombs -- Lost in the Wastes -- Flies in Scrambled Eggs -- 6.. 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 -- 7.. The Abandoned Valleys -- The Silent Beat of the Drum -- Entering a Strange Circle -- Abyss of Desire -- Rain Over the Leprosy Camp -- Mountains Behind Mountains -- 8.. Life at the Border -- Old Shabalu -- Into the Jungle -- From Traveller to Fugitive -- Selling Chiffon Scarves in a Traffic Jam -- 9.. 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.
Review: "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.
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A Note on Names -- 1.. 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 -- 2.. 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 -- 3.. Drifting Through the West -- Hairdressing in Golmud -- Fishing on Qinghai Lake -- Racing Down the Ravine -- Meeting Ma Youshan -- The Girl in the Red Blouse -- 4.. A Country in Ferment -- Back to the City -- Night Sprinkler -- River of Ghosts -- 5.. The Wind-Blown Soil -- City of Tombs -- Lost in the Wastes -- Flies in Scrambled Eggs -- 6.. 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 -- 7.. The Abandoned Valleys -- The Silent Beat of the Drum -- Entering a Strange Circle -- Abyss of Desire -- Rain Over the Leprosy Camp -- Mountains Behind Mountains -- 8.. Life at the Border -- Old Shabalu -- Into the Jungle -- From Traveller to Fugitive -- Selling Chiffon Scarves in a Traffic Jam -- 9.. 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.

"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.

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