I have read Ma Jian's Red Dust, a travel journal in which he describes going to all the different segments of The Great Wall, and his novel Beijing Coma, where a man in a coma who recalls all is a metaphor for "reformed" China, and I like them both.
I think Beijing Coma was a great feat of good writing as it is all interior monologue by the man in the coma, who is of course lying immobile on a bed, looked after by his mother. He however, does have some adventures. I will not say more.
His translator is his wife Flora Drew.
I am so happy I found his page through finding Dimon Lui's. I had met Dimon at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder, CO, c. 1998.
KM Kaung -- www.kmkaung.com
I never do high risk things, never follow the crowd, never (try not to) follow the advice of jealous people--
fortunately all the women who wanted to get in my husband's pants are all gone-- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The earliest died around 1965, the lat...
