{"title":"Liao Yiwu","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the unflinching and powerful works of Liao Yiwu, a vital voice in contemporary Chinese literature. Discover his compelling memoirs, poetry, and social commentary, offering a rare glimpse into a hidden world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"corpse-walker-book-liao-yiwu-9780375425424","title":"The Corpse Walker","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Corpse Walker\u003c\/b\u003e introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his subjects to talk openly and sometimes hilariously about their lives, desires, and vulnerabilities, creating a book that is an instance par excellence of what was once upon a time called The New Journalism. \u003cb\u003eThe Corpse Walker\u003c\/b\u003e reveals a fascinating aspect of modern China, describing the lives of normal Chinese citizens in ways that constantly provoke and surprise.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570885533969,"sku":"GOR013728490","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50024126087441,"sku":"GOR003200359","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350216478993,"sku":"CIN037542542XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50960316006673,"sku":"CIN037542542XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/037542542X.jpg?v=1750845702"},{"product_id":"god-is-red-book-liao-yiwu-9780062078469","title":"God is Red","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen journalist Liao Yiwu first stumbled upon a vibrant Christian community in the officially secular China, he knew little about Christianity. In fact, he'd been taught that religion was evil, and that those who believed in it were deluded, cultists, or imperialist spies. But as a writer whose work has been banned in China and has even landed him in jail, Liao felt a kinship with Chinese Christians in their unwavering commitment to the freedom of expression and to finding meaning in a tumultuous society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnwilling to let his nation lose memory of its past or deny its present, Liao set out to document the untold stories of brave believers whose totalitarian government could not break their faith in God, including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe over-100-year-old nun who persevered in spite of beatings, famine, and decades of physical labor, and still fights for the rightful return of church land seized by the government\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe surgeon who gave up a lucrative Communist hospital administrator position to treat villagers for free in the remote, mountainous regions of southwestern China\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Protestant minister, now memorialized in London's Westminster Abbey, who was executed during the Cultural Revolution as an incorrigible counterrevolutionary\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ultimately triumphant tale of a vibrant church thriving against all odds serves as both a powerful conversation about politics and spirituality and a moving tribute to China's valiant shepherds of faith, who prove that a totalitarian government cannot control what is in people's hearts.\u003c\/p\u003e--David Aikman, author of Jesus in Beijing","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578891706641,"sku":"GOR007450726","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50288932782353,"sku":"CIN0062078461G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50891199906065,"sku":"CIN0062078461VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51879110148369,"sku":"GOR014441905","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0062078461.jpg?v=1751456935"},{"product_id":"god-is-red-the-secret-story-of-how-christianity-survived-and-flourished-in-commu-book-liao-yiwu-9780062078476","title":"God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn God is Red, Chinese dissident journalist and poet Liao Yiwu--once lauded, later imprisoned, and now celebrated author of For a Song and a Hundred Songs and The Corpse Walker--profiles the extraordinary lives of dozens of Chinese Christians, providing a rare glimpse into the underground world of belief that is taking hold within the officially atheistic state of Communist China. Liao felt a kinship with Chinese Christians in their unwavering commitment to the freedom of expression and to finding meaning in a tumultuous society, even though he is not a Christian himself. This is a fascinating tale of otherwise unknown personalities thriving against all odds. God is Red will resonate with readers of Phillip Jenkins' The Lost History of Christianity and Peter Hessler's Country Driving.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49625391005969,"sku":"GOR005338736","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49805288538385,"sku":"CIN006207847XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50113295941905,"sku":"NGR9780062078476","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50983073841425,"sku":"NIN9780062078476","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51214150172945,"sku":"GOR004926003","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51821705855249,"sku":"CIN006207847XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52493250822417,"sku":"NLS9780062078476","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/006207847X.jpg?v=1750693430"},{"product_id":"corpse-walker-book-liao-yiwu-9780307388377","title":"The Corpse Walker","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Corpse Walker\u003c\/b\u003e introduces us to regular men and women at the bottom of Chinese society, most of whom have been battered by life but have managed to retain their dignity: a professional mourner, a human trafficker, a public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, and a Falung Gong practitioner, among others. By asking challenging questions with respect and empathy, Liao Yiwu managed to get his subjects to talk openly and sometimes hilariously about their lives, desires, and vulnerabilities, creating a book that is an instance par excellence of what was once upon a time called The New Journalism. \u003cb\u003eThe Corpse Walker\u003c\/b\u003e reveals a fascinating aspect of modern China, describing the lives of normal Chinese citizens in ways that constantly provoke and surprise.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49727511429393,"sku":"NGR9780307388377","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49804642976017,"sku":"GOR003717415","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49943459823889,"sku":"CIN0307388379VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50094748041489,"sku":"CIN0307388379G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307388379.jpg?v=1751356818"},{"product_id":"wuhan-book-liao-yiwu-9781509562992","title":"Wuhan","description":"As rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to travel to the epicentre of the disaster to try to find out what is really going on. He sees an ad for corpse carriers at a funeral home – Male or female, 16-50 years old, unafraid of ghosts - and decides to apply. He quickly realises that the official death figures bear no relation to what is happening in the local crematoria. But the brief moment when he can tell the truth to his followers on social media is soon over: he is discovered, followed and arrested by the security police – all documented live on the internet.    In this startlingly topical documentary novel, Liao Yiwu takes us into the heart of the crisis that unfolded in Wuhan and unpicks the secrecy and cover-up that surrounded the outbreak of the public health emergency that ravaged the world.  Where did the virus come from and what happened in Wuhan? Protocols are buried and new lies cement the story of the party's heroic victory - propaganda that poisons people like the virus.  Also available as an audiobook.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49750668804369,"sku":"NGR9781509562992","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51032023138577,"sku":"NIN9781509562992","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1509562990.jpg?v=1751274562"},{"product_id":"invisible-warfare-book-liao-yiwu-9781509562947","title":"Invisible Warfare","description":"As a writer, poet, musician and dissident, Liao Yiwu is one of the most important chroniclers and analysts of contemporary China. In his books, he draws on his own experiences of imprisonment and mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese state to criticise abuses of power and give a voice to the downtrodden and disenfranchised.    In this powerful memoir, Liao Yiwu reflects on his own journey from imprisonment in Sichuan to his current life in Berlin, where he now works as a full-time writer.  As China’s presence and influence on the international stage grows, this small book is a poignant reminder of the human cost of authoritarianism and of the power of the written word to bear witness to evil.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49753262588177,"sku":"NGR9781509562947","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/150956294X.jpg?v=1751086356"},{"product_id":"bullets-and-opium-book-liao-yiwu-9781982126643","title":"Bullets and Opium","description":"“Moving…a memorable series of portraits of the working-class people who defended Tiananmen Square.\" —The New York Review of Books   “A series of harrowing, unforgettable tales...Had [Liao Yiwu] not fled the country in 2011, they may never have emerged. An indispensable historical document.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   “Liao Yiwu’s searing account of what happened in Beijing on June 4, 1989, and its lasting impact, doggedly collected from witnesses, demands attention.” —South China Morning Post   From the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch) comes a raw, evocative, and unforgettable look at the Tiananmen Square massacre through the eyes of those who were there.   For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing stories are now finally revealed in this gripping and masterful work of investigative journalism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50047080005905,"sku":"CIN1982126647G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51676032696593,"sku":"CIN1982126647VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51853167165713,"sku":"GOR010004462","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52498854052113,"sku":"CIN1982126647A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982126647.jpg?v=1751252301"},{"product_id":"the-corpse-walker-real-life-stories-china-from-the-bottom-up-rare-book-liao-yiwu-1679580582iev","title":"The Corpse Walker: Real-Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up","description":"2008. First Edition. 318 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Signed by the author with dedication to half title page. Light tanning to pages with s","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50079311134993,"sku":"1679580582IEV","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1679580582IEV_1.jpg?v=1722901046"},{"product_id":"bullets-and-opium-book-liao-yiwu-9781982126650","title":"Bullets and Opium","description":"Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there.   For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50246357778705,"sku":"CIN1982126655G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50554333069585,"sku":"GOR012763708","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51063718215953,"sku":"NIN9781982126650","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52819757236497,"sku":"CIN1982126655VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52950361374993,"sku":"CIN1982126655A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1982126655.jpg?v=1750728365"},{"product_id":"for-a-song-and-a-hundred-songs-book-liao-yiwu-9780547892634","title":"For A Song and A Hundred Songs","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50323874119953,"sku":"CIN0547892632VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325967434001,"sku":"CIN0547892632A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415958520081,"sku":"CIN0547892632G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52416338100497,"sku":"GOR005276225","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0547892632.jpg?v=1751358617"},{"product_id":"corpse-walker-and-other-true-stories-of-life-in-china-book-liao-yiwu-9781921656514","title":"The Corpse Walker and Other True Stories of Life in China","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50402304098577,"sku":"CIN1921656514A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1921656514.jpg?v=1751282041"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-liao-yiwu.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}