The corpse walker real life stories, China from the bottom up

Liao, Yiwu 1958- (Author).

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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ISBN: 9780307377180 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 0307377180 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
ISBN: 9780307377180 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
ISBN: 0307377180 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
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Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2008.

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General Note:	Title from eBook information screen. "Pantheon eBooks"--Cover image. "This translation is composed of ten new pieces and sixteen pieces that were originally published in Chinese in Taiwan as part of Interviews with People from the Bottom Rung of Society, published by Rye Field Publishing Co., Taipei, in 2002"--T.p. verso.
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