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Ma Jian (writer)

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Ma Jian (born 18 August 1953) is a Chinese-born British writer. [1]

35 relations: Anti-Rightist Campaign, Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign, Bardo, Beijing Coma, Bourgeois liberalization, British Chinese, Chatto & Windus, China, Communist Party of China, Cultural Revolution, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Financial Times, Incest, Index on Censorship, Liu Binjie, London Book Fair, Old Summer Palace, One-child policy, Pantheon Books, PEN International, People's Literature, Prague Writers' Festival, Qingdao, Ruhr University Bochum, Sent-down youth, Sexual abuse, Shandong, The Times, There Is No Escape, Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, Tibet, Tibetan culture, Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong, Writer.

Anti-Rightist Campaign

The Anti-Rightist Campaign in the People's Republic of China, which lasted from roughly 1957 to 1959, was a campaign to purge alleged "rightists" within the Communist Party of China (CPC) and abroad.

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Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign

The Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign was a political campaign spearheaded by conservative factions within the Communist Party of China that lasted from October 1983 to December 1983.

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Bardo

In some schools of Buddhism, bardo (Tibetan བར་དོ་ Wylie: bar do) or antarabhāva (Sanskrit) is an intermediate, transitional, or liminal state between death and rebirth.

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Beijing Coma

Beijing Coma is a 2008 novel by Ma Jian.

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Bourgeois liberalization

Bourgeois liberalization refers to either parliamentary democracy or Western popular culture.

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British Chinese

British Chinese (also known as Chinese British, Chinese Britons) are people of Chineseparticularly Han Chineseancestry who reside in the United Kingdom, constituting the second or third largest group of overseas Chinese in Europe apart from the Chinese diaspora in France and the overseas Chinese community in Russia.

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Chatto & Windus

Chatto & Windus was an important publisher of books in London, founded in the Victorian era.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China (CPC), also referred to as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China.

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Cultural Revolution

The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until 1976.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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Incest

Incest is sexual activity between family members or close relatives.

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Index on Censorship

Index on Censorship is a campaigning publishing organisation for freedom of expression, which produces a quarterly magazine of the same name from London.

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Liu Binjie

Liu Binjie (born September 1948) is a Chinese politician.

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London Book Fair

The London Book Fair (LBF) is a large book-publishing trade fair held annually, usually in April, in London, England.

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Old Summer Palace

The Old Summer Palace, known in Chinese as Yuanming Yuan, and originally called the Imperial Gardens, was a complex of palaces and gardens in present-day Haidian District, Beijing, China. It is located northwest of the walls of the former Imperial City section of Beijing.

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One-child policy

The one-child policy, a part of the family planning policy, was a population planning policy of China.

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Pantheon Books

Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint with editorial independence.

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PEN International

PEN International (known as International PEN until 2010) is a worldwide association of writers, founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere.

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People's Literature

People's Literature (《人民文学》 Renmin wenxue) was the first literary magazine to be created in communist China.

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Prague Writers' Festival

The Prague Writers' Festival (PWF) is an annual literary festival in Prague, Czech Republic, taking place every spring since 1991.

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Qingdao

Qingdao (also spelled Tsingtao) is a city in eastern Shandong Province on the east coast of China.

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Ruhr University Bochum

The Ruhr-University Bochum (German: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, RUB), located on the southern hills of central Ruhr area Bochum, was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II.

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Sent-down youth

The sent-down, rusticated, or "educated" youth(Chinese: 知識青年上山下鄉), also known as the zhiqing, were the young people who—beginning in the 1950s until the end of the Cultural Revolution, willingly or under coercion—left the urban districts of the People's Republic of China to live and work in rural areas as part of the "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement". "The Zhiqing and the Rustication Movement "Zhiqing" is the abbreviation for zhishi qingnian, which is usually translated as "educated youth." (Zhishi means "knowledge" while qingnian means "youth.") The term zhishi qingnian appeared during " The vast majority of those who went had received elementary to high school education, and only a small minority had matriculated to the post-secondary or university level.

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Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is usually undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another.

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Shandong

Shandong (formerly romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the East China region.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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There Is No Escape

There is No Escape is a 1948 British film from Hammer Films.

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Thomas Cook Travel Book Award

The Thomas Cook Travel Book Award originated as an initiative of Thomas Cook AG in 1980, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing.

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Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, in 1989.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Tibetan culture

Tibet developed a distinct culture due to its geographic and climatic conditions.

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Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong

The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China, referred to as "the Handover" internationally or "the Return" in Mainland China, took place on 1 July 1997.

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Writer

A writer is a person who uses written words in various styles and techniques to communicate their ideas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Jian_(writer)

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