An extraordinary travelogue traces a young Chinese artist's journey to the westernmost border of China--a journey that lasted for three years and took him to parts of his homeland that Westerners have never seen--and vividly brings to life the places and people that he encountered along the way. Rep[...]
In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Here, he writes about his disillusion with the Communist system and an extraordinary journey that he made around China in search of himself and his country.[...]
Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his 'art', the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China. This is a funny novel about the absurditi[...]
A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he wanders through the countryside, he witnesses the sky burial of a Tibetan woman who died during childbirth, shares a tent with a nomad who is walking to a sacred mountain to seek forgiveness for sleeping with his daughter.[...]
Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and his friends bring news of their lives in an almost unrecognisable China, Dai Wei escapes into his memories, weaving[...]
Dai Wei has been unconscious for?almost a decade.?A medical student and a pro-democracy protestor in Tiananmen Square in June, 1989, he was?caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. As the millennium draws near, a sparrow flies through the window and lands on Dai Wei's naked chest, a [...]
"From one of world literature's most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China's one-child policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from its reach"
Far away from the Chinese economic miracle, from the bright lights of Beijing and Shanghai, is a vast rural hinterland[...]
"Rött damm" har kallats för en ny "Vilda svanar" i engelsk press och vann Thomas Cook Travel Book Award år 2002. Den är en försäljningssuccé i England och USA och en given bok inför Kinaresan eller för den Kinaintresserade.
Hans konstnärsvänner tyckte att han var konservativ, h[...]
Varje vecka träffas två vänner för att äta middag tillsammans. Den ene är författare, den andre är professionell blodgivare. De utgör ett udda par, där en strävar efter att briljera intellektuellt, medan den andre blivit en rik man tack vare sin gränslösa entreprenörsanda. Under en kv�[...]
Silicon (Si) plays a significant role in the resistance of plants to multiple stresses including biotic and abiotic stresses. Silicon is also the only element that does not damage plants when accumulated in excess. However, the contribution of Si to plant growth has been largely ignored due to its u[...]