Remolding and resistance among writers of the Chinese prison camp : disciplined and published / edited by Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Philip F.

Wu, Yenna.

Series:

Routledge studies in Asia's transformations

Asia's transformations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--China.

Prisons.

Prisoners--Civil rights.

China.

Prisoners--Civil rights--China.

Prisoners.

Authors, Chinese.

Human rights--China.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

xiii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Contents:

1 The repercussions of thought remolding and forced labor on Chinese writers: Introduction / Philip F. Williams 1

2 Zhang Xianliang as author and hero: A study of his Record of My Emotional Life / C.T. Hsia 13

3 Traumatic "remolding" and its ethical implications in three of Zhang Xianliang's novels / Yenna Wu 27

4 Labor camp fiction as conversion literature: Zhang Xianliang and Ooka Shohei / Jeffrey C. Kinkley 68

5 Resisting the regime of remolding / Richard Madsen 109

6 Expressing the "inexpressible": Pain and suffering in Wumingshi's Hongsha [Red Sharks] / Yenna Wu 122

7 Profit and loss in China's contemporary prison system / James D. Seymour, Richard Anderson 157

Sinograph glossary of selected names and terms 174

Sinograph glossary of selected titles 177.

Notes:

Errata inserted.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415770203

020396747X

9780415770200

OCLC:

62728603

Publisher Number:

9780415770200

9780203967478