Based 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 Dik?tter 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.
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