I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness. Ma Jian Read Quote
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. Ma Jian Read Quote
In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings. Ma Jian Read Quote
Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways. Ma Jian Read Quote
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don’t realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them. Ma Jian Read Quote
The great quality of the ‘Three Kingdoms’ is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality. Ma Jian Read Quote
