3 Quotes & Sayings By Liao Yiwu

Born in 1966 in Dalian, China, Liao Yiwu is a Chinese journalist and activist. He studied literature and law at Fudan University and has been a journalist since 1988. His work has been featured in the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine. He has also published two books of stories: The Corpse Walker and China: A Wound in the Flesh Read more

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In these remote corners, I have discovered a center point, where East met West, and although there has been a collision of cultures, there is now a new Christian identity that is distinctly Chinese. The circuitous mountain path in Yunnan province is red because over many years it has been soaked with blood. Liao Yiwu
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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