The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up Book

The Corpse Walker is 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 â??newâ? China--the China of economic growth and globalization-â??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, a mortician, a feng shui master, a former Red Guard, a political prisoner, a village teacher,… read more...
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