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

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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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Main Author: Seymour, James D.
Other Authors: Anderson, Richard
Format: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Fan Sidong
  • Prologue: Visiting the Xining Laogai Area
  • Why the Northwest?
  • Structural Overview
  • Gansu
  • Sentencing Patterns
  • Total Prisoner Population
  • The Economy of the Gansu Laogai
  • Political and Religious Prisoners
  • Xinjiang: One Region, Two Systems
  • The Bingtuan and Its Laogai
  • Department of Justice (Sifa) Laogai
  • Management
  • Prison Conditions
  • The Economics of the Laogai
  • Size and Nature of the Prisoner Population
  • Outside Influences
  • Qinghai
  • Historical Overview
  • Town and Country
  • Sizing Up the Laogai
  • Prison Conditions
  • Special Populations
  • Checking Up on the System
  • Prisons and Human Rights
  • Excesses in the Laogai
  • China and the International Human Rights Regime
  • The Aftermath: What Happens upon Release?
  • Jiuye
  • Recidivism
  • The Economy of Laogai
  • The Laogai in Theory and Practice
  • The Laogai in Comparative Perspective
  • Getting Modern
  • Author's Commentaries
  • The Laogai for Foreign Visitors Since 1995
  • The World Bank and Harry Wu
  • Others' Commentaries
  • Some Proposals to the National People's Congress Regarding the Prison Law (1994)
  • Report on the Work of the Inspectorate in 1995
  • Decision of the United Nations Concerning China (1996)
  • Laogai Regulations
  • List of Laws Governing Labor Reform in China
  • Regulations Concerning the Behavior of Criminals Undergoing Reform
  • Regulations Concerning Treatment of Foreign Visitors to Labor Reform Units
  • Regulations Guiding the Management of the Reform Environment in Prisons.

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