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

Liao, Yiwu, 1958-

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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.

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Subject: Working class China. / Social structure China. / Economic history. / Social history. / Social structure. / Working class. / China Social conditions. / China Economic conditions. / China.
• ISBN: 9780307388377, 0307388379

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HD8736.5.L56 2009	1	BOOK	BUSINESS