“A deeply political book” – China Dream by Ma Jian

"As you'd expect, the closer you are to the situation in China, the more this book will speak to you. Undoubtedly, given China's pre-eminence on Amnesty's list of countries that undertake Human Rights violations, we need people like Ma Jian in the world (if only to counterbalance the kind of nonsense spouted by people who would say things like "ah but look at how strong their economy is" - when they had a strong economy). For a reader uninitiated in the politics of China, it may be China Dream is a strange and bewildering read - but that is possibly as it should be, and surely the hope would be that the strangeness of China Dream would, in turn, provoke a reader into finding out more..."

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