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1 online resource |
| Series |
Routledge studies in Asia's transformations |
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Routledge studies in Asia's transformations.
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 The repercussions of thought remolding and forced labor on Chinese writers: Introduction; 2 Zhang Xianliang as author and hero: A study of his Record of My Emotional Life; 3 Traumatic "remolding" and its ethical implications in three of Zhang Xianliang's novels; 4 Labor-camp fiction as conversion literature: Zhang Xianliang and Ooka Shohei; 5 Resisting the regime of remolding; 6 Expressing the "inexpressible": Pain and suffering in Wumingshi's Hongsha [Red Sharks] |
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7 Profit and loss in China's contemporary prison systemSinograph glossary of selected names and terms; Sinograph glossary of selected titles; Index |
| Summary |
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 affect |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Authors, Chinese.
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Human rights -- China
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Prisoners -- Civil rights -- China
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Prisons -- China
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Authors, Chinese
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Human rights
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Prisoners -- Civil rights
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Prisons
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Philip F
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Wu, Yenna
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| ISBN |
020396747X |
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9780203967478 |
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