When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish. — Ma Jian Find Copy Share Image
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own… — Ma Jian Body Copy Share Image
“On July 3, 1968, Chairman Mao issued an order calling for the ruthless suppression of class enemies. He wanted all members of… — Ma Jian Black cat Copy Share Image
“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.” — Ma Jian Travel Copy Share Image
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary… — Ma Jian Believe Copy Share Image
While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I… — Ma Jian Again Copy Share Image
Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the… — Ma Jian Alive Copy Share Image
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official… — Ma Jian Apology Copy Share Image
I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear. — Ma Jian Chinese Copy Share Image
If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint. — Ma Jian Always Copy Share Image
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child,… — Ma Jian Age Copy Share Image
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party.… — Ma Jian China Copy Share Image
The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for… — Ma Jian Agreeing Copy Share Image
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well. — Ma Jian Flesh Copy Share Image
When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past. — Ma Jian Becomes Copy Share Image
I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls… — Ma Jian Believe Copy Share Image
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny. — Ma Jian Believe Copy Share Image
'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to… — Ma Jian Achieve Copy Share Image
