Ma Jian

Ma Jian was born in 1953 in Qingdao according to BookBrowse. An apprentice watchmaker, a painter of propaganda signs and then a press photographer, he left his job to travel across China for three years, a journey he recounted in a book. After the ban on his Tibetan stories in 1987, his works were proscribed in his country; he left the same year for Hong Kong, then, after the handover, for Germany and London, where he lives with his English translator, Flora Drew.

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