02344nam a22002537a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000090007304100080008208200220009010000260011224500530013826000470019130000300023836500160026852015380028465000470182265000310186965000240190070000280192494200120195299900190196495201070198320220324094431.0220324b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0231125089  cAloy  aeng  223a364.951bDIKC  aFrank Dikotter925655  aCrime, punishment and the prison in modern China  aNew YorkbCoulumbia University Pressc2002  axvi,441 p.bHBc22x14 cm.  2Social Work  aBased 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 human nature itself, its tractability and capacity to change. In China during the tumultuous years from 1895 to 1949, these notions were transformed in dramatic ways.

Frank Dikötter identifies penal reform as a radical modern tool to achieve an indigenous Chinese vision of social cohesion and the rule of virtue. Modernizing elites in China viewed the reformation of criminals as a constitutive part of a project of a national regeneration in which good order, economic development, and state power could only be obtained by shaping obedient subjects. This groundbreaking account of the evolution of Chinese penal theory is brought together with a richly textured portrait of daily life behind bars. Petty villains, abusive guards, ambitious wardens, and idealist reformers people its pages and vividly trace China's complicated movement from empire to republic to communist state.  aPrisons-China-History- 20th Century925656  aModern Penal System925657  aImprisonment925658  aDIKOTTER (Frank)925659  2ddccGF  c222013d222013  00102ddc40708SWaALbALd2013-03-24l0o364.951 DIKCpGF03138r2022-03-24 00:00:00w2022-03-24yGF