Books by Liao Yiwu
language
English
review 1: Wow is all I can say. Stories/ interviews were fascinating and absorbing. Some were quirky, sorrowful and candid but all were brutally honest and sadly profound. The horrors that people have endured under the communist regime in China is horrifying and disgusting ( mass starvat...
language
English
review 1: The author Liao Yiwu introduced the word "diceng" meaning "bottom rung of society" in 1949. His book "interviews with people from the bottom rung of society" was published in China in the 1990s. It was banned. In 2002 the complete manuscript was smuggled out of China. The transla...