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Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
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Birth: | 18th August, 1953 |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Profession: | Writer |
Ma was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province of east China, on 18 August 1953. As a child, he was the pupil of a painter who had been persecuted as a Rightist. After his school education was cut short by the Cultural Revolution, he studied by himself, copying out a Chinese dictionary word by word. At fifteen, he joined a propaganda arts troupe, and was later assigned a job as a watchmender’s apprentice.
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