Archive for December, 2008

Liao Yiwu – The Corpse Walker – China from the Bottom Up

Liao Yiwu was born in 1958, when Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward launched 30 million starving Chinese peasants into their early graves, and he has spent his life trying to uncover the stories of the forgotten souls that have been left behind during China’s tumultuous modern history.
In The Corpse Walker, Liao Yiwu interviews the Chinese [...]