Liao Yiwu Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Where did you get the meat from? Mo Erwa answered calmly: We just boiled our three-year-old daughter. — Liao Yiwu

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

Times have changed. Everyone talks about money and nobody cares about Communism anymore. — Liao Yiwu

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

Beauty doesn't last. It's bound to be destroyed. — Liao Yiwu