1st Edition

Remolding and Resistance Among Writers of the Chinese Prison Camp Disciplined and published

Edited By Philip Williams, Yenna Wu Copyright 2006
200 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Acknowledgments  1. The Repercussions of Thought Remolding and Forced Labor on Chinese Writers: Introduction  Philip F. Williams  2. Zhang Xianliang as Author and Hero: A Study of His Record of My Emotional Life  C. T. Hsia  3. Traumatic "Remolding" and Its Ethical Implications in Three of Zhang Xianliang’s Novels  Yenna Wu  4. Labor Camp Fiction as Conversion Literature: Zhang Xianliang and Ooka Shohei  Jeffrey C. Kinkley  5. Resisting the Regime of  Remolding  Richard Madsen  6.  Expressing the "Inexpressible": Pain and Suffering in Wumingshi’s Hongsha [Red Sharks] Yenna Wu 7. Profit and Loss in China's Contemporary Prison System  James D. Seymour with contribution by Richard Anderson Sinograph Glossary of Selected Names and Terms  Sinograph Glossary of Selected Titles  Notes on Contributors  Index

 

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Philip Williams, Yenna Wu