The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage by Williams, Philip F.

The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520244023)

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The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage by Williams, Philip F.

The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage

$34.95
The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage by Williams, Philip F.

The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage

$34.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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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.

Author: Philip F. Williams, Yenna Wu
ISBN-10: 0520244028
ISBN-13: 9780520244023
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2004
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.20w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2005 pg. 1480
By Philip F. Williams
By Philip F. Williams
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Philip F. Williams is Professor and Head, School of Language Studies, Massey University, New Zealand. His previous books include Village Echoes: The Fiction of Wu Zuxiang (1993). Yenna Wu is Professor of Chinese and Director of the Asian Languages and Civilizations Program at the University of California at Riverside and author of The Chinese Virago: A Literary Theme (1995), Ameliorative Satire (1999), among other books.

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