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The corpse walker : real life stories, China from the bottom up / Liao Yiwu ; translated from the Chinese, and with an introduction, by Wen Huang.

by Liao, Yiwu, 1958-

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Anchor Books, c2009.

362.850951 L693c

Working class -- China.

Social structure -- China.

China -- Social conditions.

China -- Economic conditions.

1st Anchor Books edition

xiv, 328 p. ; 20 cm.

"This translation composed of eleven new pieces and seventeen pieces that were originally published in Chinese in Taiwan as part of 'Interviews with People from the Bottom Rung of Society,' published by Rye Field Publishing Co., Taipei, in 2002"--Colophon.

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.

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