Ma Jian People Quotations

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.

When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.