The Diary of Ma Yan: The Life of a Chinese Schoolgirl

Biography

Author: Ma Yan

No more money for school this year. I till the land in order to pay for my brothers’ schooling. When I think of the happy times at school, I can almost imagine myself there. How I want to study! I want to go to school, Mother. How wonderful if I could stay at school forever!,,In a remote province in Northeastern China, in May 2001, the journalist Pierre Haski and his group a….Read More

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