| Description |
xiv, 320 pages ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
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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Working class -- China.
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Working class. |
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China. |
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Social structure -- China.
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Social structure. |
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China -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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China -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
| ISBN |
9780375425424 |
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037542542X |
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