by Ma Jian · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099283294
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«Red Dust» is the travelogue and autobiographical memoir by Ma Jian, published by Vintage in paperback (336 pages, in English).
In this work, part memoir and part travel chronicle, Ma Jian reconstructs the journey he undertook when he turned thirty, when he left his journalistic job in Beijing to travel across China on foot, without money and clandestinely. It portrays the lives of ordinary people during the economic opening after Mao's death, between Party control and the search for freedom.
Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award 2002, the work was nominated for the Kiriyama Prize. Written in Chinese, this English edition is translated by Flora Drew.
Recommended for readers interested in contemporary China, travel writing, and personal memoirs.
Ma Jian is a Chinese-born British writer.
