Definitions

1. Ma Yan is a young girl determined to continue her education despite the hardships and struggles that ensue.
2. Ma Yan is a cheerful, chubby-faced girl who three years ago was just a bright pupil in the local primary school.
3. Ma Yan is the 16-year-old daughter of poor subsistence farmers in Zhangjiashu, a village in southern Ningxia, a remote province of central China. (Web site)
4. Ma Yan was only one of the most lucky among those children from poor families. (Web site)
5. Ma Yan was writing about her life in a village where no foreigners had been in more then 60 years.

Diary

1. In my humble opinion, Ma Yan-s Diary should be mandatory reading for all.
2. Some adults may be troubled by the diary's odd provenance and the purposeful annotations framing Ma Yan's rather meandering reflections. (Web site)
3. First published in France, The Diary of Ma Yan is finally reaching American shores with this edition.

Ma Yan

1. Ma Yan. Avant que je re-oive de l-aide, mes parents partaient toutes les saisons de l-ann-e pour chercher une herbe des steppes (lire [l-article).
2. Ma Yan. Je n-ai pas encore r-fl-chi - cette question, j-ai vu beaucoup de choses nouvelles en France, tout est nouveau pour moi.
3. D'une part, ils ont vu que Ma Yan était comme eux, quand le professeur lui posait des questions, elle avait peur de ne pas pouvoir y répondre.
4. Knowing that an education is the only thing that could rescue her from a life of poverty, Ma Yan continues her fight to stay in school.
5. It led the creation of an international fund for the education of Ma Yan and other poor children in her village.

Ce

1. Ma Yan. Non, jamais, je voulais juste finir le travail du professeur et noter ce que je voyais et ce que j-entendais.
2. Ma Yan est assur-ment un cas dans ce village, d'avoir pouss- aussi loin sa scolarit-.

Es

1. Plus -g-es et aussi pauvres que ceux de Ma Yan, ils ont encore moins le choix. (Web site)
2. Ma Yan. C-est un -crivain chinois, essayiste, des ann-es trente, mort depuis longtemps.

Mother

1. Ma Yan's illiterate mother, while suffering from an ulcer, undertook a job of hard labor hundreds of miles from home to pay for her daughter's education. (Web site)
2. Even Ma Yan's mother has begun to learn how to write. (Web site)
3. Ma Yan's parents have also purchased a donkey and a new TV set and redecorated their house with the money. (Web site)
4. They turned out to be written by a 14-year-old girl named Ma Yan, the daughter of the woman who passed them to the photographer.
5. Each week Ma Yan and her younger brothers walked seven miles to school where they stayed until Friday night when they returned home. (Web site)

La

1. Ma Yan. Mon p-re a achet- une moto, nous avons achet- un t-l-viseur couleur, nous avons repeint la maison, nous avons achet- un -ne et des moutons.
2. Ma Yan. Je ne l-ai pas rencontr- la premi-re fois qu-il est venu dans mon village, seulement quand il est revenu la deuxi-me fois.
3. Ma Yan. J-ai rencontr- des gens de couleurs diff-rentes - Paris, ils paraissent tous sympathiques, surtout dans la famille qui me loge.
4. Ma Yan. Ma m-re n--tait jamais l-, elle -tait tout le temps sortie, travaillait loin de chez moi, et je devais finir le travail demand- par le professeur.

De La

1. D'autre part, ils ont remarqué que la vie de Ma Yan était tout à fait différente de la leur.
2. Le correspondant à Beijing de la "Libération" Pierre Haski a visité en 2001 le village de Ma Yan.
3. Avant son départ, la mère de Ma Yan lui a remis dans les mains trois carnets de journal ainsi qu'une lettre de la petite à sa maman.

School

1. In short daily entries, Ma Yan tells of life in and out of school. (Web site)
2. In the summer of 2002, a fund known as the Children of Ningxia was set up to send Ma Yan and children like her to school.
3. Desperately poor, the Yan family had to pull Ma Yan out of school as it had become too expensive.
4. This is the true story of Ma Yan who stuggles to stay in school in spite of her families severe poverty.
5. Ma Yan-s story is of her struggle to survive and break out of this terrible poverty.

Et

1. On envoyait des lettres à Ma Yan et aussi de l'argent.
2. Certains enfants ont de l'argent pour pouvoir acheter des l-gumes et m-me des glaces.- Pas Ma Yan. (Web site)
3. Aussi choqu-s que leur professeur, certains -l-ves d-cident en concertation avec elle d-entrer en contact avec les enfants du coll-ge o- -tudiait Ma Yan.

Village

1. It led the creation of an international fund for the education of Ma Yan and other poor children in her village.
2. This is the real diary of Ma Yan, a 14-year-old schoolgirl from the extremely impoverished Ningxi region in northwestern China.
3. The children of Zhangjiashu, a dirt-poor village in China-s arid north-west, are learning from the spirit of Ma Yan, a 16-year-old schoolgirl.

Le

1. Au coll-ge du chef-lieu, le professeur de sa fille lui a dit: -Ma Yan est la meilleure -l-ve. (Web site)
2. Le cri du coeur de Ma Yan, une jeune fille de 14 ans, a boulevers- Zhang Jia Shu, un village isol- de l'ouest mis-rable de la Chine.

Maintenant

1. But after Lib-ration published his article about Ma Yan and her plight on Jan.
2. Ma Yan. Maintenant je peux continuer l--cole sans souci, il m-a sauv- d-un grand ab-me.
3. Maintenant, Ma Yan peut bénéficier de la Fondation et des droits d'auteur pour toucher 500 yuans (environ 60 dollars) par mois.

Pay

1. Later Haski learned Ma Yan had gone fifteen days without food to have the money to pay for the ballpoint pen.
2. Ma Yan. Je savais que la France existait, que les Etats-Unis, la Chine existaient en tant que pays, je l-ai appris dans les cours de g-ographie.

Les

1. Son p-re part chercher Ma Yan - son coll-ge.
2. Ma Yan explique que ses amis sont tous issus des familles les plus pauvres. (Web site)
3. Ma Yan sait ce qu'elle doit - sa m-re, -- ses mains-, comme elle le dit . (Web site)
4. L'une d'elle, pas plus grande que Ma Yan, a quitt- l'-cole il y a un an, et aide d-sormais sa famille dans les travaux domestiques.

De Ma

1. Ma Yan-s tale was a truly pitiable one.
2. The Chinese media have also shown a keen interest in Ma Yan. (Web site)
3. Back in Beijing, the success of Ma Yan's book continues to grow. (Web site)
4. Ma Yan's diaries, which were not intended for publication, accidentally found their way into bookstores. (Web site)
5. In front of Ma Yan-s house, a sea of brown stretches to the horizon - barren, brown fields and hills, dust swirling in the wind.

Published

1. First published in France, The Diary of Ma Yan is finally reaching American shores with this edition.
2. This diary of 14-year-old Ma Yan, who lived with her family in a drought-stricken corner of rural China, was published in Europe in 2001.
3. So far "Ma Yan's Diary" has been published in five languages and many foreign readers have written letters to Ma Yan offering their support. (Web site)

Thirteen

1. We meet Ma Yan when she-s thirteen and in the last year of her primary school.
2. I came to find out about this book by listening to an NPR interview of the French journalist who originally was given the diaries by Ma Yan's Mother.
3. After "Ma Yan's Diary" came out in France in October 2002, the association's membership grew to 300, and more donations poured in. (Web site)
4. Seven girls, including Ma Yan and Yang Juan, board at the school 15 miles away, Yuwang Middle School.
5. As they were leaving, the mother of thirteen year old Ma Yan thrust her daughter's diary into the arms of the foreigners, begging them to help her.

Eacute

1. Ma Yan y est présentée comme une élève exemplaire.
2. Haski a été "ému" par les mots simples et sincères de Ma Yan ainsi que son inflexibilité.

Feel

1. In order to retain its original feel, all of Ma Yan's wrongly written characters remained unchanged. (Web site)
2. Back in the other China, the China where children win scholarships to foreign universities, I try to discover what people feel about Ma Yan and her book.

Does

1. I hope Ma Yan does get into a great university and becomes a journalist. (Web site)
2. But Ma Yan does not understand; while, despite her harsh words, Ma Yan's mother does understand her daughter's passionate plea to remain in school.

Study

1. Scribbled on the back of a seed packet for green beans, Ma Yan had written her now-famous cry, "I want to study." Tears on the paper attested to her anger.
2. I liked it mostly because Ma Yan wanted to study and wouldn't give up no matter what because she wanted a good job to help people.

Now

1. The headmaster of Ma Yan-s secondary school, Ma Chenggui, is also troubled, saying he no longer wants to rely on outsiders.
2. As a direct result of Ma Yan's diaries being read, the Association for the Children of Ningxia now helps children like Ma Yan stay in school.
3. Now, thanks to Ma Yan, she is also at secondary school.
4. At the launch, Ma Yan wept as she told the audience about a friend who was forced to leave school in the fifth grade and is now married with a baby.

Family

1. This book was also very hopeful, as Ma Yan's diary brings her some fame and brings world attention and help to her family and schoolmates.
2. I enjoyed this book, though it is painful to read about the poverty and hunger Ma Yan and her family experienced.
3. Ma Yan's family struggles every day of her life and for Ma Yan getting an education is no different.

Says

1. Today Ma Yan is sixteen and a high school student in China, but her story begins in the year 2000 and ends in December, 2001.
2. -How wonderful it would be if I could stay in school forever,- says Ma Yan, but in 2001 she knows that will never happen.
3. Now sixteen, Ma Yan hopes to attend a university: "I want to study journalism," says Ma Yan.

Herself

1. Ma Yan proves herself an articulate young woman.
2. As he speaks, Ma Yan herself enters his office, and suddenly it is hard not to be inspired again.
3. A very touching story Rating: I loved this story because of Ma Yan's spirit.

Hard

1. Ma Yan studied hard, but she did not feel successful unless she was number one in her class. (Web site)
2. Before I read The Diary of Ma Yan, it was hard for me even to imagine a situation like hers. (Web site)

High School Student

1. Today Ma Yan is sixteen and a high school student in China, but her story begins in the year 2000 and ends in December, 2001.

Life

1. Ma Yan was writing about her life in a village where no foreigners had been in more then 60 years.

Yang Xiu

1. Ma Yan is pretty generic so leave him for last, but take out Yang Xiu and then Xiahou Yuan as fast as you can. (Web site)

Last Year

1. We meet Ma Yan when she�s thirteen and in the last year of her primary school.

Northwestern China

1. This is the real diary of Ma Yan, a 14-year-old schoolgirl from the extremely impoverished Ningxi region in northwestern China.

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