Full name: Red Dust: A Path Through China

Author: Ma Jian Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Biographies, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780385720236 0385720238

In 1983, at the age of thirty, dissident artist Ma Jian finds himself divorced by his wife, separated from his daughter, betrayed by his girlfriend, facing arrest for "Spiritual Pollution," and severely disillusioned with the confines of life in Beijing. So with little more than a change of clothes and two bars of soap, Ma takes off to immerse himself in the remotest parts of China. His journey would last three years and take him through smog-choked cities and mountain villages, from scenes of barbarity to havens of tranquility. Remarkably written and subtly moving, the result is an insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both insider and outsider in his own country could have written. Similar books: Fried Eggs with Chopsticks by Polly Evans Country Driving by Peter Hessler The Early Arrival of Dreams by Rosemary Mahoney China Road by Rob Gifford Lost on Planet China by J. Maarten Troost River Town by Peter Hessler Behind the Wall by Colin Thubron Coming Home Crazy by Bill Holm Behind the forbidden door by Tiziano Terzani The River at the Center of the World by Simon Winchester Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong Foreign Babes in Beijing by Rachel DeWoskin The Adventures of Ibn Battuta by Ross E. Dunn Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure by Michael Palin Chasing Che by Patrick Symmes A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts