User:2sls/Bo Ma

Ma Bo (born August 22nd, 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 actions in the Tienanmen 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, Ma Bo's mother, Yang Mo, a prominent writer herself, was terminally ill with 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.