Liao Yiwu is a writer, musician, and poet from Sichuan, China. He is a critic of the Chinese regime, for which he has been imprisoned, and the majority of his writings are banned in China. Liao is the author of For A Song and A Hundred Songs, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up, The Dongdong Dancer and the Sichaun Chef, and God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the prestigious 2012 Peace Prize awarded by the German Book Trade and the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis in 2011 for the publication of his memoir in Germany.
Anglica Ho
Last Updated: June 25, 2014
The NYRB China Archive
06.03.14
The Tanks and the People
from New York Review of Books
Twenty-five years ago, before the Tiananmen massacre, my father told me: “Son, be good and stay at home, never provoke the Communist Party.”My father knew what he was talking about. His courage had been broken, by countless political campaigns...