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

Yiwu, Liao

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 037542542X ISBN 13: 9780375425424

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Yiwu Liao

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Reseña del editor

Offering a vivid portrait of the bottom of modern-day Chinese society, a collection of oral histories reveals the lives of ordinary, sometimes outcast, Chinese men and women, including a professional mourner, a trafficker in humans, a leper, an abbot, a retired government official, a mortician, a political prisoner, and others. 30,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor

Liao Yiwu is a poet, novelist, and screenwriter. In 1989, he published an epic poem, "Massacre," that condemned the killings in Tiananmen Square and for which he spent four years in prison. His works include Testimonials and Report on China's Victims of Injustice. In 2003, he received a Human Rights Watch Hellman-Hammett Grant, and in 2007, he received a Freedom to Write Award from the Independent Chinese PEN Center. He lives in China.

Wen Huang is a writer and freelance journalist whose articles and translations have appeared in The Wall Street Journal Asia, the Chicago Tribune, the South China Morning Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Paris Review.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 037542542X
• ISBN 13: 9780375425424
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320