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The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up, Yiwu, Liao, Very
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- ISBN
- 9780375425424
- Book Title
- Corpse Walker : Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
- Original Language
- Chinese
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Human Rights, General, Economic Conditions, Censorship
- Item Weight
- 20.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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The Corpse Walkeris 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. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, he manages to get his subjects to talk openly about their lives. 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 otherspeople who have been battered by life but who have managed to retain their dignity, their humor, and their essential, complex humanity. Liao crafted the interviews (conducted between 1990 and 2003) with sensitivity and patience, working both from notes and from his own memory of these remarkable conversations. The result is an idiosyncratic, powerful, and richly revealing portrait of a people, a time, and a place we might otherwise have never known.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
037542542x
ISBN-13
9780375425424
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15038282280
Product Key Features
Original Language
Chinese
Book Title
Corpse Walker : Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Human Rights, General, Economic Conditions, Censorship
Genre
Business & Economics, Social Science, Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
20.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Revealing. . . . full of forbearance and forgiveness. . . . Each re-created interview...captures a particular individual at a crucial time in Chinese history." The New York Times Book Review "Stunning. . . . Revealing in its incidental details. . . . Liao brings us fascinating insights into the lives of all manner of workers....an addictive book." Bookforum "Reading The Corpse Walker is like walking with Liao: Even though our feet are not blistered and our bodies are not starved, in the end we are shaken and moved." San Francisco Chronicle From the Trade Paperback edition., "Revealing. . . . full of forbearance and forgiveness. . . . Each re-created interview…captures a particular individual at a crucial time in Chinese history." -The New York Times Book Review "Stunning. . . . Revealing in its incidental details. . . . Liao brings us fascinating insights into the lives of all manner of workers....an addictive book." -Bookforum "ReadingThe Corpse Walkeris like walking with Liao: Even though our feet are not blistered and our bodies are not starved, in the end we are shaken and moved." -San Francisco Chronicle From the Trade Paperback edition.
Lccn
2007-034160
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
362.850951
Lc Classification Number
Hd8736.5.L56 2008
Table of Content
Foreword by Philip Gourevitch Introduction: The Voice of China's Social Outcasts by Wen Huang 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 Translator's Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2008
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