El Paseante de Cadaveres - Retratos de La China Profunda (Spanish, Paperback)

A masterful ensemble of journalistic narrations that takes readers into the heart of China, this collection of moving and piercing interviews of marginalized individuals inserts readers into the convulsive and terrible recent history of a country within which communism and economic development have coexisted alongside the realities of starvation and cannibalism, of torture and political control, and of violence and injustice. At the same time, the book leads readers through mesmerizing ancestral traditions and beliefs, providing a perspective of the Chinese reality that is completely different from the one that tends to circulate within Western media. One of the traditions depicted is that of the corpse walkers: people who are hired to transport those who died far from their places of origin back to their homes so their souls can find peace, a process carried out with mysterious and mythical processions in which the corpse is treated as if it were still alive. "Un magistral conjunto de relatos periodisticos que lleva al lector al corazon de la China, esta coleccion de estremecedoras y punzantes entrevistas a personajes marginales adentra al lector en la convulsa y terrible historia reciente de un pais en el que el comunismo y el desarrollo economico han convivido con realidades de hambruna y canibalismo, de tortura y control politico, y de violencia e injusticia. Al mismo tiempo, el libro transporta al lector por las encantadoras tradiciones y creencias ancestrales, proveyendole una perspectiva de la realidad china completamente diferente a la que suele circular en los medios occidentales. Una de las costumbres descritas es la de los paseantes de cadaveres: personas que se contratan para transportar hasta su hogar a aquellos que fallecieron fuera de su lugar de origen para que su alma pueda encontrar el descanso eterno, cuestion que llevan a cabo con misteriosas y misticas procesiones en las que el cadaver es tratado como si estuviera vivo. "

General

Imprint:	Sexto Piso Editorial
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2014
Authors:	Liao Yiwu
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	420
ISBN-13:	978-84-15-60113-5
Languages:	Spanish
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	84-15-60113-1
Barcode:	9788415601135

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