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Liao Yiwu
Chinese musician and writer (born 1958)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Liao.
Liao Yiwu (Chinese: 廖亦武; pinyin: Liào Yìwǔ; also known as Lao Wei (Chinese: 老威); born 16 June 1958) is a Chinese author, reporter, musician, and poet.[1] He is a critic of China's Communist Party, for which he was imprisoned in 1990.
His books, several of which are collections of interviews with ordinary people from the lower rungs of Chinese society, were published in Taiwan and Hong Kong but are banned in mainland China; some have been translated into Spanish, English, French, German, Polish and Czech.
He has been living in Germany since April 2011.
Early life and education
Liao Yiwu was born in 1958, the same year as The Great Leap Forward.[2] During the famine of The Great Leap Forward, he suffered from edema and was close to dying.
In 1966, his father was branded a counter-revolutionary during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Liao's