Adam Brennen itibaren Veszkény, Hungary

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2018-05-22 19:40

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One of the most fascinating things about this book is how it came to be. Liao Yiwu is constantly on the run from the Chinese government, has been jailed, tortured, and forced to be a wandering street musician. The text for this book was smuggled out of China and published for the rest of the world to read, and wow, what a read! Yiwu interviews the members of the lowest rungs in Chinese society like the public toilet manager, a leper, a grave robber, a father who lost his son in the Tiananmen massacre, a blind erhu player, a human trafficker, a migrant worker, and many others. Most of them give graphic, detailed accounts of what life was like for during the famines and political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward. I do wish that there were more interviews about current times now that China has opened up its economy a lot more as this would have provided a powerful compare/contrast situation. One of the funniest chapters was the interview titled 'The Peasant Emperor'. In 1989 Zeng Yinglong declared himself emperor of his village and was later thrown in jail for it. The interview goes something like this: Yiwu: Are you the well known emperor that people talk about in this jail? Yinglong: You should address me as 'Your Majesty." and then hilarity ensues. One of the most memorable interviews was from a retired Communist Party official who discussed the difficulty of the 1960s famine and how his attempts at curbing cannibalism in his region were a failure. Apparently little girls were targeted since they are seen as disposable and some families would swap children in order to not eat their own. He raised some interesting moral questions about what one would do in a similar situation. Do you eat one child to save the rest or let them all starve to death? Overall a really interesting and worthwhile read.

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