birth_place pseudonym nationality birth_date period genre article_title name occupation
china old ghost -lrb- 老鬼 -rrb- chinese 22 august 1947 1988 -- present cultural revolution , nonfiction bo ma
 ma bo -lrb- 马波 ） non-fiction writer
bo ma

ma bo -lrb- born august 22 , 1947 -rrb- 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 participation in tiananmen 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 , the english translation of `` blood red sunset '' -lrb- penguin , 1995 -rrb- was published with howard goldblatt as translator .
also in 1995 , ma bo 's mother , yang mo , a prominent writer herself , was diagnosed with terminal 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 .
