Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian

“In Ma Jian’s 1985 short story collection “Stick Out Your Tongue,” Tibet emerges instead as place of isolation, desperation, and ignorance. Twelve years later, the stories in this reprinted volume are still not only riveting but relevant, even as Chinese control over Tibet has mostly changed from militarism to vacation colonialism.’ Read the review at Small Spiral Notebook.