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

by Liao Yiwu, Wenguang Huang, Philip Gourevitch
$17.61
The Corpse Walker : Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up - Thryft
The Corpse Walker : Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up - Thryft
  • Ryszard Kapuściński Prize (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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

by Liao Yiwu, Wenguang Huang, Philip Gourevitch
$17.61
ISBN: 9780375425424
Authors: Liao Yiwu, Wenguang Huang, Philip Gourevitch
Publisher: Pantheon
Date of Publication: 2008-04-15
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Sociology, History, Creative Nonfiction, Politics, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: History, Politics, Asia, Politics, Essays, Sociology, History, Biography, Biography, Politics
Goodreads rating: 4.21
(rated by 2813 readers)

Description

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 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, a mortician, a feng shui master, a former Red Guard, a political prisoner, a village teacher, a blind street musician, a Falun Gong practitioner, and many others–people who have been battered by life but who have managed to retain their dignity, their humor, and their essential, complex humanity.Liao crafted the interviews (conducted between 1990 and 2003) with sensitivity and patience, working both from notes and from his own memory of these remarkable conversations. The result is an idiosyncratic, powerful, and richly revealing portrait of a people, a time, and a place we might otherwise have never known.
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