Ma Jian je známý svým odvážným zkoumáním moderní Číny. Jeho díla často zkoumají témata politického útlaku a osobního vykoupení, přičemž zachycují napětí mezi tradicí a modernizací. Jianův styl je charakterizován syrovou upřímností a pronikavým pozorováním lidské psychiky pod tlakem. Jeho psaní slouží jako silný komentář k sociálním a politickým změnám v současné Číně.
In 1983, at 30, Ma Jian sought to escape his life in Beijing. He purchased a train ticket to China's western border, embarking on a journey of self-discovery. This book captures the contradictions of China through the perspective of someone who is both an insider and an outsider.
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Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life.
Part memoir, part travelogue, this volume shows Ma Jian's skills as novelist, poet and painter. It brings the people and places alive on the page, while his personal story offers an insight into Chinese society since the death of Mao.
At once a powerful allegory of a rising China, racked by contradictions, and a seminal examination of the Tiananmen Square protests, "Beijing Coma" is a novel spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty, and a deep rage.
Set against the backdrop of Tibet, the narrative follows a Chinese writer grappling with personal loss as he embarks on a journey through the region. His experiences include witnessing a sky burial, sharing a tent with a nomad seeking redemption, and learning about a young female lama's tragic fate. The book weaves together enchanting and horrifying tales, presenting a complex and vivid portrait of Tibetan culture and spirituality, while also reflecting on themes of forgiveness, loss, and the intersection of beauty and darkness.
This beautifully illustrated multicultural children's book follows Ming as he discovers the birth of Kung Fu.After Xiao Ming participates in a martial arts exercise at school, his parents take him on a trip to the Shaolin Temple—the birth-place of kung fu—in the central Henan Province of China. The temple is situated in the forests of Shaoshi Mountain, one of the seven mountains of Song Mountains. With a history of over 1,500 years, the grand Shaolin Temple has precious stone-carvings in its many buildings. At the Warrior Monks School ( Wuseng Yuan ), he sees monks practicing kung fu and jumps in to learn some martial arts skills.He then goes into a stone cave by mistake and meets a monk who turns out to be Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, according to legend. Bodhidharma takes him onto the mountain to see peach flowers, small birds and big trees. He tells Ming how the Shaolin Temple became the birthplace of Zen in Buddhism.
‘One of China’s greatest living novelists’ Guardian Blending fact with fiction, China Dream is an unflinching satire of totalitarianism. After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping’s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to present his plan for a microchip that will be implanted into the brain of every citizen to replace all painful recollections with a collective dream of national supremacy, his sanity begins to unravel. Plagued by flashbacks of the Cultural Revolution, his nightmare visions from the past threaten to destroy his dream of a glorious future. This darkly comic fable is a dystopian vision of repression and state-enforced amnesia set not in the future, but in China today. ‘Excoriating…Not for nothing has Ma been called both the Orwell and Solzhenitsyn of Chinese literature’ A Financial Times Book of the Year ‘Red Guards meet Kurt Vonnegot, sort of: powerful!’ Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
Written in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre, this novel is a virtuoso piece of red humour about the absurdities and cruelties of life in modern China. A father desperate for a son abandons his retarded daughter; an illegal migrant scrapes a living by writing love letters, but can't help falling in love himself; a heartbroken actress performs her own suicide in front of a packed audience, a young entrepreneur uses an old pottery kiln to set up a private crematorium and is overwhelmed by demand
Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2011, Words & the World was a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. This collection represents the finest contemporary poetry in trilingual or bilingual presentation.