Product Description: 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...read more

In God is Red, Chinese dissident journalist and poet Liao Yiwu—once lauded, later imprisoned, and now celebrated author of For a Song and a Hundred Songs and The Corpse Walker—profiles the extraordinary lives of dozens of Chinese Christians, providing a rare glimpse into the underground world of belief that is taking hold within the officially atheistic state of Communist China. Liao felt a kinship with Chinese Christians in their unwavering commitment to the freedom of expression and to finding meaning in a tumultuous society, even though he is not a Christian himself. This is a fascinating tale of otherwise unknown personalities thriving against all odds. God is Red will resonate with readers of Phillip Jenkins' The Lost History of Christianity and Peter Hessler's Country Driving.