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Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter escape to the Yangtze River and begin a fugitive life. For years they drift south through the poisoned waterways and ruined landscapes of China, picking up work as they go along, scavenging for necessities and flying from police detection. As Meili's body continues to be invaded by her husband and assaulted by the state, she fights to regain control of her fate and that of her unborn child. From Bookforum The word rebel is bandied around fairly lightly in literary circles, but Ma qualifies. He has been in open confrontation with the Chinese establishment since well before the suppression of his first short-story collection in 1987. Ma's critics have long complained that his unremittingly negative view of China lacks nuance, and The Dark Road w

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Author

Jian, Ma; Drew, Flora

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780701187538

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.67 / 5 (581 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14