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Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp

Author : Philip Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135987866
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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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 201 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.

Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp

Author : Philip Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135987858
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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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.

Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature

Author : Yenna Wu
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739167421
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights, Suffering, and Aesthetics in Political Prison Literature written by Yenna Wu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while examining the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of global aesthetics in political prison narratives, it makes a timely contribution to the advocacy and discourse of universal human rights by demonstrating how literary insight enhances the study of this field and encouraging comparative analyses and cross-cultural understanding.

Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China

Author : Elisa Nesossi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317106059
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China written by Elisa Nesossi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents an extensive investigation into the process of reforms of detention powers in today’s China and offers an in-depth analysis of the debates surrounding the reformist attempts. The chapters in this collection demonstrate that legislative and institutional reforms in this area result from political opportunities - openings and tensions at the central institutional levels of political authority - and contingent social and political factors. The book examines legal and institutional reforms to institutions of detention and imprisonment that have occurred since the 1990s, with a particular focus on the 21st century. Its content follows three particular lines of enquiry concerning the issue of deprivation of liberty in contemporary China. The first deals with the academic and theoretical debates on the subject of imprisonment and detention. The related chapters explain the difficulties encountered in this area of research and understandings of the discourses of reform through labour in Western and Chinese scholarship. The second deals with the specific issues of criminal and administrative forms of deprivation of liberty, examining in particular the institutional and legislative dimensions, considering the relationship between reforms and criminal justice policy agendas. The third assesses the meaning of institutional reforms in the context of the changing state-society relationship in contemporary China.

Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers

Author : Laifong Leung
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317516184
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers written by Laifong Leung and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since the death of Mao Zedong, interest in Chinese writers and Chinese literature has risen significantly in the West. In 2000, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature followed by Mo Yan in 2012, and writers such as Ha Jin and Da Sijie have also become well known in the West. Despite this progress, the vast majority of Chinese writers remain largely unknown outside of China. This book introduces the lives and works of eighty contemporary Chinese writers, and focuses on writers from the "Rightist" generation (Bai Hua, Gao Xiaosheng, Liu Shaotang), writers of the Red Guard generation (Li Rui, Wang Anyi), Post-Cultural Revolution Writers, as well as others. Unlike earlier works, it provides detailed, often first-hand, biographical information on this wide range of writers, including their career trajectories, major themes and artistic characteristics. In addition to this, each entry includes a critical presentation and evaluation of the writer’s major works, a selected bibliography of publications that includes works in Chinese, works translated into English, and critical articles and books available in English. Offering a valuable contribution to the field of contemporary Chinese literature by making detailed information about Chinese writers more accessible, this book will be of interest to students and scholars Chinese Literature, Contemporary Literature and Chinese Studies.

Re-writing Culture in Taiwan

Author : Fang-Long Shih
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113403623X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Re-writing Culture in Taiwan written by Fang-Long Shih and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future. As the study of Taiwan shifts from being a provincial back-water of sinology to an area in its own (albeit not sovereign) right, a combination of established and up and coming scholars working in the field of East Asian studies offer a re-reading and re-writing of culture in Taiwan. They show that sustained critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan using issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity provides a useful point of departure for thinking through similar problematics and issues elsewhere in the world. Re-writing Culture in Taiwan is a multidisciplinary book with its own distinctive collective voice which will appeal to anyone interested in Taiwan. With chapters on nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, religion and museum studies, the breadth of ground covered is truly comprehensive.

Stalin and Mao

Author : Lucien Bianco
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9882370659
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Stalin and Mao written by Lucien Bianco and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's ascent to the ranks of the world's second largest economic power has given its revolution a better image than that of its Russian counterpart. Yet the two have a great deal in common. Indeed, the Chinese revolution was a carbon copy of its predecessor, until Mao became aware, not so much of the failures of the Russian model, but of its inability to adapt to an overcrowded third-world country. Yet, instead of correcting that model, Mao decided to go further and faster in the same direction. The aftershock of an earthquake may be weaker, but the Great Leap Forward of 1958 in China was far more destructive than the Great Turn of 1929 in the Soviet Union. It was conceived with an idealistic end but failed to take all the possibilities into account. China's development only took off after--and thanks to--Mao's death, once the country turned its back on the revolution. Lucien Bianco's original comparative study highlights the similarities: the all-powerful bureaucracy; the over-exploitation of the peasantry, which triggered two of the worst famines of the 20th century; control over writers and artists; repression and labor camps. The comparison of Stalin and Mao that completes the picture, leads the author straight back to Lenin and he quotes the observation by a Chinese historian that, "If at all possible, it is best to avoid revolutions altogether."

Hypocrisy

Author : Vincent Shing Cheng
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888455680
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (884 download)

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Download or read book Hypocrisy written by Vincent Shing Cheng and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the official propaganda surrounding the drug detainees in China is that of helping, educating, and saving them from their drug habits and the drug dealers who lure them into drug abuse, it is clear, according to Vincent Shing Cheng, that those who have gone through the rehabilitation system lost their trust in the Communist Party’s promise of help and consider it a failure. Based on first-hand information and established ideas in prison research, Hypocrisy gives an ethnographic account of reality and experiences of drug detainees in China and provides a glimpse into a population that is very hard to reach and study. Cheng argues that there is a discrepancy between the propaganda of ‘helping’ and ‘saving’ drug users in detention or rehabilitation centres and the reality of ‘humiliating’ them and making them prime targets of control. Such a discrepancy is possibly threatening rather than enhancing the party-state’s legitimacy. He concludes the book by demonstrating how the gulf between rhetoric and reality can illuminate many other systems, even in much less extreme societies than China. ‘This book is highly original, meticulously researched, and insightful. The study comes to very informative conclusions that contrast empirical data with the way drug rehabilitation is displayed in the media and government propaganda. It is a must-read for scholars in prison studies, but should also be recommended to criminologists, political scientists, and lawyers.’ —Saskia Hufnagel, Queen Mary University of London ‘The book is an excellent account of the state’s handling of drug abuse in China and convincingly argues that the institutions’ official purpose of helping the offenders is poorly served and largely hypocritical. A compelling study based on solid and in-depth empirical research.’ —James D. Seymour, Columbia University

Global Convict Labour

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004285024
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Global Convict Labour written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Global Convict Labour, nineteen contributors offer a global and comparative history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from the Antiquity to the present.

Writing Okinawa

Author : Davinder L. Bhowmik
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135973024
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Writing Okinawa written by Davinder L. Bhowmik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully researched presentation of the region’s political and social history; at the same time, it thoughtfully engages with current critical perspective with perspectives on subaltern identity, colonialism, and post-colonialism, and the nature of "regional," "minority," and "minor" literatures. Is Okinawan fiction, replete with geographically specific themes such as language loss, identity, and war, a regional literature, distinct among Japanese letters for flourishes of local color that offer a reprieve for the urban-weary, or a minority literature that serves as a site for creative resistance and cultural renewal? This question drives the book’s argument, making it interpretative rather than merely descriptive. Not only does the book provide a critical introduction to the major works of Okinawan literature, it also argues that Okinawa’s writers consciously exploit, to good effect the overlap that exists between regional and minority literature. In so doing, they produce a rich body of work, a great deal of which challenges the notion of a unified nation that seamlessly rises from a single language and culture.

Sovereign Power and the Law in China

Author : Flora Sapio
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004182454
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Sovereign Power and the Law in China written by Flora Sapio and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses under-researched institutions and practices in China's criminal justice system, arguing that derogations from the rule of law constitute an organic component of the legal order.

Global Histories of Work

Author : Andreas Eckert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110434466
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Global Histories of Work written by Andreas Eckert and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First title of the new series Work in Global and Historical Perspective that introduces the conceptual approach towards the field of global labour history through a collection of essays chosen by the editors.

China Mysteries

Author : Jeffrey C. Kinkley
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824896734
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book China Mysteries written by Jeffrey C. Kinkley and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educational exchanges. There was even talk in the mainstream press that China was heading toward a more democratic future. It was during this second Sino-Western honeymoon that authors in the US, Canada, France, the UK, and elsewhere began writing mystery fiction set in contemporary China in their regional languages. These “China mysteries”—crime, detective, and mystery thriller novels that take place in China but were not written or published there—formed a new genre of popular fiction that highlighted the world’s hopes and fears after Tiananmen. The multinational and multicultural writers of China mysteries, among them ex-PRC nationals like Qiu Xiaolong, Zhang Xinxin, and Diane Wei Liang, converged on the China Mainland to negotiate political and cultural complexities through crime fiction plotlines. Their books emerged from Western lineages of the modern novel and popular genre fiction—with Chinese contributions—and depended on Western commercial publishing models shaped by cultural, national, political, and economic factors. This work examines more than a hundred China mysteries—many describing and analyzing social and economic changes at the center of modern life in China—to provide a brief history of the genre and analyze the formulaic and original elements of the mysteries, including their attention to matters of location, social content, characterization, history, and biography. It also highlights the role of “information” acquisition as a motivation for readers and authors of popular fiction, which has become a topic of discussion in Chinese literature studies. With its timely commentary on Sino-Western relations as presented through crime fiction, China Mysteries will appeal to students and scholars of contemporary Chinese literature and culture, as well as fans of crime novels and others who are curious about the global dimensions of the genre and how it complicates our understanding of “world literature.”

Handbook of Contemporary China

Author : Alvin Y. So
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814350095
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Contemporary China written by Alvin Y. So and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface / Willam S. Tay and Alvin Y. So -- 1. Development model / Alvin Y. So -- 2. Politics / Kam-Yee Law -- 3. Social change / Xiaogang Wu -- 4. Law / Bin Liang -- 5. Population / Zhongdong Ma -- 6. Ethnicity / Barry Sautman -- 7. Foreign policy / Simon Shen -- 8. Environment / Yok-shiu Lee, Carlos Wing-hung Lo and Anna Ka-Yin Lee -- 9. Urbanization / Fulong Wu -- 10. Higher education / Ka-ho Mok and Li Wang -- 11. Religion / David A. Palmer -- 12. Literature / Ling-tun Ngai -- 13. Cinema / Rui Zhang -- 14. Consumption and leisure / Kevin Latham -- 15. Internet and civil society / Guobin Yang

Chinese Society

Author : Elizabeth J. Perry
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 041556073X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Society written by Elizabeth J. Perry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance & protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. It draws on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history & political science, & covers issues including women, labour, ethnic conflict & suicide.

The Role of American NGOs in China's Modernization

Author : Norton Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415506573
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Role of American NGOs in China's Modernization written by Norton Wheeler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the waning years of the Cold War, the United States and China began to cautiously engage in cultural, educational, and policy exchanges, which in turn strengthened new security and economic ties. These links have helped shape the most important bilateral relationship in the late-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book explores the dynamics of cultural exchange through an in-depth historical investigation of three organizations at the forefront of U.S.-China non-governmental relations: the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and The 1990 Institute. Norton Wheeler reveals the impact of American non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on education, environment, fiscal policy, and civil society in contemporary China. In turn, this book illuminates the important role that NGOs play in complementing formal diplomacy and presents a model of society-to-society relations that moves beyond old debates over cultural imperialism. Finally, the book highlights the increasingly significant role of Chinese Americans as bridges between the two societies. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with leading American and Chinese figures, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese politics and history, international relations and transnational NGOs.

Reclaiming Chinese Society

Author : You-tien Hsing
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113527729X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Chinese Society written by You-tien Hsing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the mechanisms, processes and actors producing a wide spectrum of social and cultural changes in reform China. Contrary to most literature that emphasize economic and political processes at the expense of Chinese society, the book argues for the centrality of the social in understanding Chinese development.