Description
A dissident artist on the brink of losing everything sets out on a three-year trek across China toward Tibet, carrying only a camera, meager provisions, and Walt Whitman’s poetry. As the noose tightens and arrests and executions rise, his journey becomes both a search for personal truth and a sustained, poetic meditation on a nation in transformation. Moving through remote landscapes and everyday lives, he confronts the human cost of political control, the fragility of freedom, and the uneasy promises of modernization. Written with Ma Jian’s distinctive blend of lyrical reportage and intimate self-examination, this is a portrait of China’s underbelly—vast, shifting, and hauntingly alive.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2010
ISBN: 9781407073347
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Details
First Published
2001
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Red Dust by Ma Jian.