The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.
Ma JianRed Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
Ma JianTo become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons.
Ma Jian