| DATE: | Monday, October 17, 2005 |
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| TIME: | 4:30 PM |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
| SPONSORS: | Institute of East Asian Studies |

Ma Jian is the author of the highly acclaimed Red Dust, a thoughtful memoir of an urban poet, painter and writer on the road in the mid-1980s. In his 2004 novel, The Noodle Maker, Ma Jian writes about the absurdities and cruelties of life in post-Tiananmen China. Ma Jian won the Thomas Cook Prize (UK) for his book, Red Dust. His forthcoming book, Stick Out Your Tongue, will be published in spring 2006.
Other programs in the IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia.