When history is erased, people’s moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian Quotes
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
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| Birth: | 18th August, 1953 |
| Nationality: | Chinese |
| Profession: | Writer |
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Ma was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province of east China, on 18 August 1953. As a child, he was the pupil of a painter who had been persecuted as a Rightist. After his school education was cut short by the Cultural Revolution, he studied by himself, copying out a Chinese dictionary word by word. At fifteen, he joined a propaganda arts troupe, and was later assigned a job as a watchmender’s apprentice.
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