TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ma,Jian
AU  - Drew,Flora
TI  - Red dust: a path through China 
SN  - 0385720238
AV  - DS712 .M325 2001
U1  - 915.1045 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - Pantheon Books/Random House, Anchor Books/Random House
KW  - Ma, Jian,
KW  - China
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - Maps on endpapers; 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
N2  - "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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