Folk Arts: The Corpse Walker

Corpse Drivers: A mysterious profession passed down in western Hunan. This book tells the rural corpse-driving tales of the old corpse driver Niu Er and his fellow masters. The old corpse drivers travel through the mountains at night, accompanied by the spirits of the dead and conversing with people of the past. Their strange, twisting adventures include searching for treasure in the deep mountains. It follows the fateful encounters between Niu Er and the many spirits he escorts, and explores the bizarre secrets of the boundary between yin and yang, as well as the mysterious totems, history, and culture of the mountains of ancient western Hunan. From the Han dynasty onward, the central dynasties and the peoples of remote mountain villages have shared a history of grudges and entanglements. Ancient Miao witchcraft, the Bo people's hanging coffins and rise and fall, and a host of legends from western Hunan: follow the footsteps of several old corpse drivers on an exotic journey of discovery, through a mysterious and wondrous world.