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Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China
F Dikotter
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Based on extensive research and many newly discovered sources, Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China examines the radical changes in Chinese society during the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of the Chinese prison system. More than a simple history of prison rules or penal administration, this book explores the profound effects and lasting repercussions of the superimposition of Western-derived models of repentance and rehabilitation on traditional Chinese categories of crime and punishment. A society's prisons reflect much about its notions not only of law and order and the rights of the individual, but of ... Read more
Based on extensive research and many newly discovered sources, Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China examines the radical changes in Chinese society during the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of the Chinese prison system. More than a simple history of prison rules or penal administration, this book explores the profound effects and lasting repercussions of the superimposition of Western-derived models of repentance and rehabilitation on traditional Chinese categories of crime and punishment. A society's prisons reflect much about its notions not only of law and order and the rights of the individual, but of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231125086
SKU
V9780231125086
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About F Dikotter
Frank Dikotter is a lecturer in history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China (Columbia) and Sex, Culture and Modernity in Modern China.
Reviews for Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China
Thanks to painstaking work in the archives, Dikotter is able to usher his readers into the Chinese prison. He follows individual inmates and provides many details on their daily life, social and educational backgrounds, health, and sanitary conditions... [A] useful work for specialists of the penal systems of Asia.
Jerome Bourgon American Historical Review An excellent book, simultaneously meticulous ... Read more
Jerome Bourgon American Historical Review An excellent book, simultaneously meticulous ... Read more