The Great Wall of Confinement : the Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage.
China is the only major world power to have entered the twenty-first century with a thriving prison camp networka frightening, mostly hidden realm known since 1951 as the laogai system. This book, the most comprehensive study of China's prison camps to date, draws from a wide range of primary s...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2004.
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| Summary: | China is the only major world power to have entered the twenty-first century with a thriving prison camp networka frightening, mostly hidden realm known since 1951 as the laogai system. This book, the most comprehensive study of China's prison camps to date, draws from a wide range of primary sources, including many compelling literary documents, to illuminate life inside China's prison camps. Focusing mainly on the second half of the twentieth century, Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu outline the evolution of the laogai system, construct a vivid picture of prisoners' lives from arrest and int. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-219) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520938557 0520938550 1282358065 9781282358065 0520227794 9780520227798 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |