Our 2024 impact report is here! Read now

Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

Red Dust

by Ma Jian

Due to publisher restrictions, this audiobook is unavailable for purchase in your selected country.

Narrator William Rycroft

This audiobook uses AI narration.

We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.

Learn more

Length 10 hours 51 minutes

Language English

Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

Summary

In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Deng Xiaoping was clamping down on 'Spiritual Pollution'; young people were rebelling. With his long hair, jeans and artistic friends, Ma Jian was under surveillance. One day he bought a train ticket to the westernmost border of China and set off in search of himself.
The result is a compelling and utterly unique insight into the teeming contradictions of China that only a man who was both an insider and an outsider in his own country could have written.
‘Honest, raw, insightful... The Chinese equivalent of On the Road' TIME

Travel Nonfiction