Corpse Walker Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up

Name: Corpse Walker Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
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ISBN: 9780307388377

ISBN-10: 0307388379

ISBN-13: 9780307388377

Edition: 2009

Authors: Liao Yiwu

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The Corpse Walkeris a compilation of twenty-seven extraordinary oral histories that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu (one of the best-known writers in China because he is also one of the most censored) chose his subjects from the bottom of Chinese society: people for whom the "new" China--the China of economic growth and globalization-is no more beneficial than the old. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, he manages to get his subjects to talk openly about their lives. Here are a professional mourner, a trafficker in humans, a leper, an abbot, a retired government official, a former landowner,…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.27" wide x 7.96" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English