• Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.

    Ma Jian: Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
    "Home truths from the exile". Interview With Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2004.