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The corpse walker : real life stories, China from the bottom up / Liao Yiwu

By: Yiwu, LiaoContributor(s): Yiwu, LiaoMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: ; Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | : 7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: New York : Pantheon Books, . ©2008Description: xiv, 320 pages ; 25 cmISBN: 9780307388377Subject(s): 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 SituationGenre/Form: DDC classification: 362.850 YIW

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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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

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