New ghosts, old ghosts [electronic resource] : prisons and labor reform camps in China / James D. Seymour and Richard Anderson ; foreword by Fan Sidong.

Much has been written about the laogai (sometimes likened to the Soviet gulag) in the People's Republic of China. Depending on the source, the prisons are described as nonexistent, enlightened institutions, or hellish places that subject the inmates to degradation and misery. The system is comm...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author:	Seymour, James D.
Other Authors:	Anderson, Richard
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, ©1998.
Subjects:	Prisons > China. Forced labor > China. Human rights > China. Forced labor. Human rights. Prisons. China.