The great wall of confinement : the Chinese prison camp through contemporary fiction and reportage

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Title:

The great wall of confinement : the Chinese prison camp through contemporary fiction and reportage

Author:

Williams, Philip F.

ISBN:

9780520244023

9780520227798

Personal Author:

Williams, Philip F.

Publication Information:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

1. The cultural foundations of China's prison camp system -- 2. The development of the Chinese communist prison camp -- 3. The PRC prison camp (I) : from arrest to forced labor -- 4. The PRC prison camp (II) : from struggle sessions to release or death -- 5. Prison writing.

Subject Term:

Concentration camps -- China.

Forced labor -- China.

Political prisoners -- China.

Added Author:

Wu, Yenna.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2003024223.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal051/2003024223.html

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Summary

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.