The Compelling Ideal Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956 / Jan Kiely.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiely, Jan, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--China--History--20th century.

Prisons.

Corrections--China--History--20th century.

Corrections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 403 pages) maps

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT Yale University Press [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong's revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China's prison system, Kiely's thought-provoking work brings the history of this critical phenomenon to life through the stories of individuals who conceptualized, implemented, and experienced it, and he details how these techniques were subsequently adapted for broader social and political use.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Maps

Prologue

1. Architects of Penal Reformation in the Late Qing Empire and Early Republic of China, 1900-1920

2. Two Guides to Reform: Prison Instructors in Jiangsu and Beijing

4. Reformation for Salvation: The Buddhist Movement in the Jails and Prisons of 1920s Zhejiang and Jiangsu

5. A Mechanism for All Offenses: The Nationalist Expansion of the Reformation Regime, 1927-1937

6. The Indispensable Regime: Thought Reform in Wartime, 1937-1945

7. Revolutionary Thought Reform: The Communist Version, 1946-1956

Conclusion

Selected Glossary of Chinese Terms

List of Abbreviations in the Notes

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300186376

0300186371

OCLC:

879430100