The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
by Liao Yiwu
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 037542542X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375425424
- Seller
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Synopsis
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. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Firefly Bookstore LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 412933
- Title
- The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China from the Bottom Up
- Author
- Liao Yiwu
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 037542542X
- ISBN 13
- 9780375425424
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- April 2008
- Pages
- 336
- LCCN
- 2007034160
- Bookseller catalogs
- History/Asia/China;
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