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Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Chinese Prison System, "Laogai" by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights
Download or read book Chinese Prison System, "Laogai" written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China by : James D. Seymour
Download or read book New Ghosts, Old Ghosts: Prisons and Labor Reform Camps in China written by James D. Seymour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 commonly thought of (by admirers and critics alike) as having a measurable impact on the national economy and providing significant resources to the state. Based on research in classified documents and extensive interviews with former prisoners, judicial personnel, and other insiders, and featuring case studies dealing with the three northwestern provinces, this book examines such assertions on the basis of the facts about this underexamined subject in order to arrive at a detailed, objective, and realistic picture of the situation. In the case of each province under study, the authors discuss the history of the provincial prison system and the impact that each has had at the macro, meso, and micro levels.
Book Synopsis Chinese Prison System, Laogai by : United States. Congress. House. Committe
Download or read book Chinese Prison System, Laogai written by United States. Congress. House. Committe and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Book Synopsis The Great Wall of Confinement by : Philip F. Williams
Download or read book The Great Wall of Confinement written by Philip F. Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-08-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China is the only major world power to have entered the twenty-first century with a thriving prison camp network—a 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 interrogation to release, and provide a troubling new perspective on the human rights issues plaguing China.
Book Synopsis The Great Wall of Confinement by : Philip F. Williams
Download or read book The Great Wall of Confinement written by Philip F. Williams and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-08-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "China is so big and so diverse that, as in the proverbial blind man touching an elephant, contemporary descriptions that vary dramatically can all be true. Few visitors to glittering Shanghai of Shenzhen, for example, will get any impression of the gaping gray maw of the government's prison camp system that Philip Williams and Yenna Wu, basing themselves on a vast range of Chinese sources, illuminate in erudite detail. The authors look at every facet of the camps, place them within China's historical tradition, and compare them with modern analogues. Throughout, literary and autobiographical sources give the 'feel' for the deadening world of the camps."—Perry Link, author of The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System "The Great Wall of Confinement deals with issues ranging from the legal grounding—or the lack of any—of the Chinese concentration camp system, to its technical implementation, its discursive manifestation, and its physical as well as psychological impact. A book like this is long overdue. With this work, Williams and Wu have made an important contribution to the fields of Chinese legal and literary studies."—David Der-wei Wang, author of The Monster That Is History "The Great Wall of Confinement is an excellent book. It synthesizes an already significant corpus of writings on Chinese prisons and labor camps, marshals an array of literary sources as essential historical source materials, and compares the literature of Chinese incarceration with its Soviet and European counterparts. The value of this important study stems equally from its tone—a rare combination of a level-headed quality with a very fine sensitivity to the human tragedy recounted in this literature."—Jean-Luc Domenach, author of Où va la Chine? (Where does China Go?) "The Great Wall of Confinement has attempted to lift part of the veil on China's long lasting tragedy: the use of imprisonment, torture, forced labor against its citizens, whether criminals, feeble minded or simply political opponents. The angle is new; the question is to find out how Chinese have written on this subject, whether in fiction or reportage, the way they went about telling their stories, how much they said, or withheld. Through Philip Willams and Yenna Wu's thought-provoking analysis of such writings, of the cultural origins of forced labor and imprisonment in imperial and Communist China, one comes closer to this sinister reality, which remains to this day one of the best kept secrets of our planet."—Marie Holzman, President of the Association Solidarité Chine
Book Synopsis The Memoranda of Understanding Between the U. S. and China Regarding Prison Labor by : Createspace Independent Pub
Download or read book The Memoranda of Understanding Between the U. S. and China Regarding Prison Labor written by Createspace Independent Pub and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-04 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many human rights groups allege that the use of forced labor is a common and established practice in China. They assert that products of this forced labor are exported to other countries and that a substantial portion is sent to the United States. The Commission heard testimony that prisoners in China are incarcerated for their political views or because of their religious beliefs. Human rights groups have reported that conditions in the forced labor facilities are brutal, that medical care is poor and that workplace conditions are generally exhausting and dangerous. According to the Laogai Research Foundation, China's prison systems (Laogai) are an integral part of the national economy. That Foundation claims to have documented nearly 100-forced labor camps, producing $800 million in sales, and contends that the number of such camps probably numbers well over 1,000. It further contends that goods from Laogai are being imported into the U.S. The Chinese government maintains that products made by forced labor are not exported from China to the United States.
Book Synopsis Forced Labor in China by : Christopher H. Smith
Download or read book Forced Labor in China written by Christopher H. Smith and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearings about the continued production of goods by forced labor in prisons and in the Laogai, the so-called reform-through-labor camps, maintained by the Government of China. Chinese labor camps house countless prisoners of conscience, political dissidents, and religious believers. Camp inmates are subjected to brainwashing, torture and forced labor. Witnesses include Harry Wu, Laogai Research Foundation; Fu Shengqi, Chinese dissident and Laogai survivor; Maranda Yen Shieh, Greater Wash. Network for Democracy in China; Peter Levy, Labelon/Noesting Co.; and Jeffrey Fiedler, Food and Allied Service Trades Dept. AFL-CIO.
Download or read book Laogai written by Hongda H. Wu and published by . This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wu, himself a prisoner in the Chinese laogai (forced labor camps) for 19 years, presents a well-documented analysis of the several thousand laogai where an estimated 16-20 million Chinese, perhaps 10% of them political offenders, labor on prison farms, and in factories and workshops, in a harsh atmosphere permeated by sadism, torture, and malnutrition. He provides the most comprehensive documentation of where and how China handles its prisons, and of the part played by prison labor -- a source of reliable and cheap production -- in China1s surge into the international market economy. Illustrated.
Book Synopsis Laogai--the Chinese Gulag by : Hongda Harry Wu
Download or read book Laogai--the Chinese Gulag written by Hongda Harry Wu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, the author reveals the hidden world of the "laogaidui" - the PRC's labour reform camps. The author, a political prisoner for 19 years, takes the reader through the harsh reality found in the camps, describing their ideological origins, complex structures and living conditions. What makes the PRC's "laogaidui" unique, according to Wu, is the essential contribution to China's GNP of the commodities produced by the prisoners and the camps' concomitant indispensability to the nation's economic health.
Book Synopsis Chinese Prison System, Laogai by : United States Congress House Committe
Download or read book Chinese Prison System, Laogai written by United States Congress House Committe and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp by : Philip Williams
Download or read book Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp written by Philip Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the twenty-first century, the contemporary Chinese prison camp remains a more obscure and poorly understood realm than the Forbidden City of old. Apolitical service organizations such as the International Red Cross have routinely been denied access to PRC prison camps and prison camp inmates who have smuggled out frank, unofficial accounts of their incarceration have only been published overseas, and often had their sentences extended as a result. Presenting extensive analysis of literary and biographical accounts, this illuminating book provides a window to the affective side and emotional tenor of day-to-day life in modern day labour camps. With contributions from well-known and respected scholars, the book covers the contentious issues of prison economics, prisoner 'remolding' and post-traumatic stress disorder. Drawing parallels with Soviet, Nazi and Japanese prison camp practice, this outstanding new book will be invaluable to those interested in how the human mind responds to extremity, as well as to scholars of Chinese history, politics, literature and sociology.
Book Synopsis Criminal Justice in China by : Klaus Mu_hlhahn
Download or read book Criminal Justice in China written by Klaus Mu_hlhahn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking work, Klaus Muhlhahn offers a comprehensive examination of the criminal justice system in modern China, an institution deeply rooted in politics, society, and culture. In late imperial China, flogging, tattooing, torture, and servitude were routine punishments. Sentences, including executions, were generally carried out in public. After 1905, in a drive to build a strong state and curtail pressure from the West, Chinese officials initiated major legal reforms. Physical punishments were replaced by fines and imprisonment. Capital punishment, though removed from the public sphere, remained in force for the worst crimes. Trials no longer relied on confessions obtained through torture but were instead held in open court and based on evidence. Prison reform became the centerpiece of an ambitious social-improvement program. After 1949, the Chinese communists developed their own definitions of criminality and new forms of punishment. People's tribunals were convened before large crowds, which often participated in the proceedings. At the center of the socialist system was reform through labor, and thousands of camps administered prison sentences. Eventually, the communist leadership used the camps to detain anyone who offended against the new society, and the crime of counterrevolution was born. Muhlhahn reveals the broad contours of criminal justice from late imperial China to the Deng reform era and details the underlying values, successes and failures, and ultimate human costs of the system. Based on unprecedented research in Chinese archives and incorporating prisoner testimonies, witness reports, and interviews, this book is essential reading for understanding modern China.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis Chinese Prison System, "Laogai" by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights
Download or read book Chinese Prison System, "Laogai" written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis For a Song and a Hundred Songs by : Yiwu Liao
Download or read book For a Song and a Hundred Songs written by Yiwu Liao and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the renowned Chinese poet in exile comes a gorgeous and shocking account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests.
Book Synopsis Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China by : Frank Dikötter
Download or read book Crime, Punishment and the Prison in Modern China written by Frank Dikötter and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2002 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the enormous changes in Chinese society in the first half of the 20th century through the lens of the Chinese prison system. More than a simple history of prison rules or penal administration, the text offers a social and cultural analysis of the Chinese prison system that explores the profound effects and lasting repercussions of superimposing Western-derived models of repentance and rehabilitation on traditional categories of crime and punishment.
Book Synopsis Forced Labor in China by : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Download or read book Forced Labor in China written by United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Troublemaker written by Harry Wu and published by NewsMax Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
