The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
Yiwu, Liao
ISBN 10: 037542542X ISBN 13: 9780375425424
Verlag: Pantheon, 2008
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Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers U13A-06329
Inhaltsangabe:
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.
Über die Autorin bzw. den 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.
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Titel: The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China ...
Verlag: Pantheon
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag