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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Main Author: Williams, Philip F.
Other Authors: Wu, Yenna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.
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