Because Quote by Ma Jian

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

— Ma Jian

In December of 1990, just before my eighth birthday, I left China for the United States. My father was a political dissident, and after…

— Leana S. Wen

I was born in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong the year I was five.

— Wong Kar-wai

While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the…

— Ma Jian

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took…

— Mira Sorvino

I was living in the border area with China, in Hyesan City. But after my father was imprisoned for informal trading, I escaped to…

— Park Yeon-mi

Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still…

— Eric Allin Cornell

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little…

— Salman Rushdie

In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and…

— J. G. Ballard

When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I…

— Gao Xingjian

I was posted to China in the summer of 1988, which was the greatest time ever, I think, to have been in China.

— John Pomfret

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I…

— Jean Fritz