'It's a silent conversation': authors and translators on their unique relationship
From Man Booker International winner Olga Tokarczuk to partners Ma Jian and Flora Drew … leading authors and translators discuss the highs and lows of cross-cultural collaboration
November 2018
Ma Jian: ‘Freedom can’t be taken for granted. We have to remain constantly vigilant’
The exiled Chinese writer on the murder of dissidents, attacks on free speech and his new novel exposing the brutality of his homeland
May 2013
China's barbaric one-child policy
The Dark Road by Ma Jian – review
April 2012
Ma Jian protest paints the London Book Fair red
Beijing Coma author daubs paint over himself as he brands Chinese publishers 'the mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party'
July 2011
Exiled author Ma Jian banned from visiting China
Writer warns of increasingly repressive political regime after he is stopped from entering Chinese mainland from Hong Kong
June 2009
The great Tiananmen taboo
Ma Jian on why China is still censoring all mention of Tiananmen Square
August 2008
Playing with fire
Exiled writer Ma Jian explains why the Olympics are a disaster for his homeland
June 2008
The west is doing China no favours by rushing to apologise for every perceived slur
Ma Jian
Ma Jian on why the west should speak its mind and tell it like it is
May 2008
Children of the revolution
James Lasdun acclaims Ma Jin's monumental account of the Tiananmen Square protests, Beijing Coma
April 2008
Testament to an unquiet brain
The state of modern-day China is examined in Ma Jian's powerful and exhilarating Beijing Coma, says Chandrahas Choudhury
January 2006
Beneath the roof of the world
Ma Jian illuminates the Han Chinese occupation of Tibet in a piercing collection of stories, Stick Out Your Tongue, says Isabel Hilton.
May 2004
Home truths from the exile
Ma Jian's novels are a powerful corrective to the self-interested Western acceptance of modern China
