Ma Jian
Ma Jian
Ma Jianis a Chinese writer...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth18 August 1953
CountryChina
believe government ideas
My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
people moral moral-values
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
mind want flesh
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
book beijing banned
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
cutting thinking counter-culture
Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said.
believe party ties
I will not let a political party tell me how to live, when to die or what to believe in. Our souls are linked to the universe, but we can never see heaven, because our flesh ties us to the earth and the people around us. But when the people around you have lost their will to be free, then earth becomes a hell.
travel waiting inspiring-travel
Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.
believe stronger literature
I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
self-worth body individual
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
writing self expression
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
beijing government kong publish works
I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
chinese facet great portray seems
The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.