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Place of Birth: Fuping County, Hebei, China
About Ma Bo
- Ma Bo (born August 22, 1947) is a Chinese non-fiction writer who currently resides in Beijing, China.
- After graduating from Beijing University with a degree in journalism, he wrote and published the book Blood Red Sunset in 1988 which sold over 400,000 copies in China.Subsequently as a result of his participation in Tiananmen Square, he fled the country, first to France, and then ultimately to the US, where he settled as a resident scholar in Brown University's Literary Arts program.In 1995, the English translation of Blood Red Sunset (Penguin, 1995) was published with Howard Goldblatt as translator.
- Also in 1995, Ma Bo's mother, Yang Mo, a prominent writer herself, was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
- Consequently, upon special permission from the Chinese government, Ma Bo returned to China to visit his mother in the hospital.
- He has remained in China since then.
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