Ma Yan Diary (updated version)

by Ma Yan

Paperback

Published January 1, 1991

About the author

Ma Yan was a teenager, thirteen and fourteen, from Ningxia, China, when she wrote these diary entries. At sixteen, Ma Yan hoped to attend a university: "I want to study journalism," she said. "My purpose is to keep the whole world informed, to report the poverty and real life in this area."