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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#062190">Liao Yiwu</span></b></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">,</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"> a
distinguished Chinese poet and writer of literary non-fiction, specializes in evoking the lives and feelings of people "at the bottom" in Chinese society--farmers, bricklayers, school teachers, shamens, lepers, and others. His work is banned in China, but circulates
there online, and is available in English in <i>The Corpse Walker</i> (Pantheon, 2008) and <i>God is Red </i>(HarperCollins, 2011). </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">After some short readings from these works, Liao, who does not speak English, will answer questions from Professor Andrew Winer<span class="apple-style-span">, Department of Creative
Writing,</span> with interpretation by Professor Perry Link<span class="apple-style-span">, Department of Comparative Literature</span>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#062190">CHASS Interdisciplinary Building South </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#062190">Symposium Room INTS 1113</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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