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

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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  • "Un magistral conjunto de relatos periodísticos que lleva al lector al corazón de la China, esta colección de estremecedoras y punzantes entrevistas a personajes marginales adentra al lector en la convulsa y terrible historia reciente de un país en el que el comunismo y el desarrollo económico han convivido con realidades de hambruna y canibalismo, de tortura y control político, y de violencia e injusticia. Al mismo tiempo, el libro transporta al lector por las encantadoras tradiciones y creencias ancestrales, proveyéndole una perspectiva de la realidad china completamente diferente a la que suele circular en los medios occidentales. Algunas de las historias de este magnífico volumen incluyen situaciones como la añeja costumbre de los paseantes de cadáveres: personajes que se contratan para transportar a aquéllos que fallecieron fuera de su lugar de origen hasta su hogar para que su alma pueda encontrar el descanso eterno, cuestión que llevan a cabo con misteriosas y místicas procesiones que implican que los cadáveres respondan a sus órdenes y cánticos. También incluye personajes fascinantes como un viejo campesino que logró convencer a toda la población en la que vivía de que él era el verdadero emperador señalado por Dios para liberar a su pueblo, o escalofriantes relatos como el de un hombre dedicado a vender mujeres del sur de China a poblados en done casi la totalidad de la población es masculina."@es
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "A compilation of twenty-seven oral histories that opens a window onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu 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."

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  • "Interviews"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Oral histories"

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  • "El paseante de cadáveres, retratos de la China profunda"@es
  • "El paseante de cadáveres : retratos de la China profunda"@es
  • "吆屍人 = The corpse walker"
  • "La Chine d'en bas"
  • "Yao shi ren = The corpse walker"
  • "The corpse walker"
  • "El paseante de cadaveres Retratos De La China Profunda"
  • "The corpse walker : real-life stories, China from the bottom up"
  • "The corpse walker real life stories, China from the bottom up"@en
  • "The corpse walker real life stories, China from the bottom up"
  • "The corpse walker : real life stories, China from the bottom up"

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