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red dust a path through china
Book Details
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Publisher: Vintage Books
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Author: Ma Jian
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Published Year: 2002
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ISBN: 0099283298
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Language: English
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Pages: 324
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Cover: Paperback
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Dimensions: 19 x 13 cm
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Condition: Used – Good
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Availability: In Stock
About the Book
Red Dust: A Path Through China is a powerful travel memoir by acclaimed dissident writer and artist Ma Jian. In this deeply personal narrative, Ma recounts his three-year journey across China during the early 1980s—a period marked by political transition and social uncertainty following the Cultural Revolution.
Blending reportage, reflection, and vivid storytelling, the book takes readers through remote villages, monasteries, deserts, and cities, offering rare insight into everyday life in post-Mao China. Ma Jian’s encounters with farmers, monks, workers, and marginalized communities reveal a nation wrestling with ideology, poverty, hope, and repression.
Written with emotional intensity and sharp observation, this 2002 Vintage Books paperback edition remains a compelling read for those interested in Chinese history, political dissent, travel literature, and modern Asian studies. A significant work that captures the human dimension of a rapidly changing China.
