The Corpse Walker Quotes

“Times have changed. Everyone talks about money and nobody cares about Communism anymore.”
― Liao Yiwu, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up

“Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn't fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose.”
― Liao Yiwu, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up

“Where did you get the meat from? Mo Erwa answered calmly: We just boiled our three-year-old daughter.”
― Liao Yiwu, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up

“Soon, all that was permitted to be taught was the chairman's Little Red Book. Chairman Mao's quotes were treated like the words of God.”
― Liao Yiwu, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up

“Beauty doesn't last. It's bound to be destroyed.”
― Liao Yiwu, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up

“This was the first time ever, since the legendary Pangu created the world, that suona players and professional funeral wailers were dueling for territory.”
― Liao Yiwu, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: China From the Bottom Up