For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison
With two previous versions confiscated by Chinese authorities before being published in Germany in 2011, and coming now into English with an introduction by 2009 Nobel Prize winner Herta M眉ller, Liao Yiwu糖心传媒檚 memoir of years spent in a human rights糖心传媒搗iolating Chinese prison comes with immediate political and social ...
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Latest Review: "For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey through a Chinese Prison"
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is by P. T. Smith on For a Song and a Hundred Songs by Liao Yiwu, from New Harvest. Straying for a moment from fiction and poetry reviews, we asked Patrick to contribute re this translated memoir from poet Liao Yiwu, who糖心传媒攍et’s just keep it simple糖心传媒攈as been through a hell ...
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Congrats to Liao Yiwu!
From Publishing Perspectives: In honor of his 糖心传媒渆loquent and fearless battle against political repression,糖心传媒 the German Publishers and Booksellers Association has awarded its prestigious 2012 Peace Prize to Chinese dissident writer Liao Yiwu, who walked out on his native country and landed in Germany a year and a half ...
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Liao Yiwu's First U.S. Appearance
Liao Yiwu, author of The Corpse Walker and one of China’s “most exciting and most censored writers” is making his first U.S. appearance tomorrow night. In and of itself, this is pretty cool—The Corpse Walker is a damn fine book, and he’s going to be appearing with Philip Gourevitch and Salman ...
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Portrait of a 1989 糖心传媒淐ounter-revolutionary糖心传媒
Liao Yiwu is the author of 糖心传媒淭he Corpse Walkers: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up.糖心传媒 On June 4, 1989, Liao composed a poem, “Massacre,” that condemned the government糖心传媒檚 brutal crackdown on the student pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square. He distributed underground and for which he was ...
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A Tribute to the Chinese Earthquake Victims
My friend Wen Huang — translator of Liao Yiwu’s The Corpse Walker and Xianhui Yang’s Woman from Shanghai — contacted me this morning about the article below that Liao Yiwu wrote in remembrance of the one year anniversary of the devastating Beichuan earthquake. As referenced in passing in the piece ...
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