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

by Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520244028
• ISBN13: 9780520244023
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"