Outcast writer seeks stories in China's quake zone (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sat, 06/07/2008 - 8:47pm

Chinese poet and novelist Liao Yiwu, 50, talks with a monk and a temple keeper at the earthquake damaged Gu Temple in Jiezi town of Sichuan Province Friday June 6, 2008.<br /><br />Liao spent four years in jail after writing a poem about the Tiananmen Square massacre and a book compiled of interviews with ordinary Chinese, which was recently published in the U.S.<br /><br />Now he is interviewing May 12 Sichuan earthquake survivors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - The people Liao Yiwu interviews exist on the fringe of Chinese society, and more than a few live closely with death.

The mortician. The grave robber. The professional mourner, who now can't be found.



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