IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

"Ma Jian, Stick Out Your Tongue"

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

The Noodle Maker

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.

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