The corpse walker
Yiwu, Liao,
The corpse walker : real life stories, China from the bottom up / Liao Yiwu - New York : Pantheon Books, . ©2008 - xiv, 320 pages ; 25 cm
The professional mourner --
The human trafficker --
The public restroom manager --
The corpse walkers --
The leper --
The peasant emperor --
The Feng Shui master --
The Abbot --
The composer --
The rightist --
The retired official --
The former landowner --
The Yi district chief's wife --
The village teacher --
The mortician --
The neighborhood committee director --
The former red guard --
The counterrevolutionary --
The Tiananmen father --
The Falun gong practitioner --
The illegal border crosser --
The grave robber --
The safecracker --
The blind Erhu player --
The street singer --
The sleepwalker --
the migrant worker.
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. 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's interviews were given from 1990 to 2003.--From amazon.com
9780307388377
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors : 7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Social problems & social services
Social problems of & services to groups of people
Working class -- China.
Social structure -- China.
Social structure -- China.
China -- Economic conditions.
Economic history.
Social conditions
Social structure
China.
Soziale Situation
--Social structure
362.850 YIW
The corpse walker : real life stories, China from the bottom up / Liao Yiwu - New York : Pantheon Books, . ©2008 - xiv, 320 pages ; 25 cm
The professional mourner --
The human trafficker --
The public restroom manager --
The corpse walkers --
The leper --
The peasant emperor --
The Feng Shui master --
The Abbot --
The composer --
The rightist --
The retired official --
The former landowner --
The Yi district chief's wife --
The village teacher --
The mortician --
The neighborhood committee director --
The former red guard --
The counterrevolutionary --
The Tiananmen father --
The Falun gong practitioner --
The illegal border crosser --
The grave robber --
The safecracker --
The blind Erhu player --
The street singer --
The sleepwalker --
the migrant worker.
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. 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's interviews were given from 1990 to 2003.--From amazon.com
9780307388377
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors : 7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Social problems & social services
Social problems of & services to groups of people
Working class -- China.
Social structure -- China.
Social structure -- China.
China -- Economic conditions.
Economic history.
Social conditions
Social structure
China.
Soziale Situation
--Social structure
362.850 YIW
