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SUMMARY:When Literature Intersects History: On Beijing Coma - Ma Jian
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CONTACT:Hang Tung Chow
DESCRIPTION:A Talk by Dissident Writer\, Ma Jian\n\nMa Jian was born in Qi
 ngdao\, China\, in 1953. He worked as a watch-mender’s apprentice\, a pa
 inter of propaganda boards\, and a photojournalist. At the age of thirty\,
  he left his job and travelled for three years across China. In 1987 he co
 mpleted Stick Out Your Tongue\, which prompted the Chinese government to b
 an his future work. Ma Jian left Beijing for Hong Kong in 1987 as a dissid
 ent\, but he continued to travel to China\, and he supported the pro-democ
 racy activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. After the handover of Hong Kon
 g he moved to Germany and then London\, where he now lives.\n\nHis latest 
 novel\, Beijing Coma (2008) revolves around the Tiananmen Square protests 
 of 1989\, and explores the ability to remember and the inability to act th
 rough a comatose narrator. The book has been translated into over 10 diffe
 rent languages\, and is the recipient of the 2009 Index on Censorship Free
 dom of Expression Awards.\n\nIn Chinese with English Translation.\nFree ad
 mission. All welcome.\n\nOrganised by CU Amnesty International and Chinese
  Salon\, with support from CU Hong Kong and China Affairs Society\n\nFor m
 ore information please visit: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=720553
 14075                   \n\nAlso at the same weekend: Voices of Tiananmen 
 - Tiananmen Incident 20th Anniversary Memorial Exhibition\nhttp://www.face
 book.com/event.php?eid=73657494639\n\n\n_"Once in a while - perhaps every 
 ten years\, or even a generation - a novel comes along that profoundly que
 stions the way we look at the world\, and at ourselves. BEIJING COMA is a 
 poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its histo
 ry\, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is\, in every 
 sense\, a landmark work of fiction." - The Daily Telegraph_\n\n
LOCATION:Queens Building Auditorium\, Emmanuel College\, CB2 3AP
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