"China is so big and so diverse that, as in the proverbial blind
man touching an elephant, contemporary descriptions that vary
dramatically can all be true. Few visitors to glittering Shanghai
of Shenzhen, for example, will get any impression of the gaping
gray maw of the government's prison camp system that Philip
Williams and Yenna Wu, basing themselves on a vast range of Chinese
sources, illuminate in erudite detail. The authors look at every
facet of the camps, place them within China's historical tradition,
and compare them with modern analogues. Throughout, literary and
autobiographical sources give the 'feel' for the deadening world of
the camps."--Perry Link, author of "The Uses of Literature: Life in
the Socialist Chinese Literary System
""The Great Wall of Confinement deals with issues ranging from
the legal grounding--or the lack of any--of the Chinese
concentration camp system, to its technical implementation, its
discursive manifestation, and its physical as well as psychological
impact. A book like this is long overdue. With this work, Williams
and Wu have made an important contribution to the fields of Chinese
legal and literary studies."--David Der-wei Wang, author of "The
Monster That Is History
""The Great Wall of Confinement is an excellent book. It
synthesizes an already significant corpus of writings on Chinese
prisons and labor camps, marshals an array of literary sources as
essential historical source materials, and compares the literature
of Chinese incarceration with its Soviet and European counterparts.
The value of this important study stems equally from its tone--a
rare combination of a level-headed quality with a very fine
sensitivity to the humantragedy recounted in this
literature."--Jean-Luc Domenach, author of "Oy va la Chine? ("Where
does China Go?)
""The Great Wall of Confinement has attempted to lift part of
the veil on China's long lasting tragedy: the use of imprisonment,
torture, forced labor against its citizens, whether criminals,
feeble minded or simply political opponents. The angle is new; the
question is to find out how Chinese have written on this subject,
whether in fiction or reportage, the way they went about telling
their stories, how much they said, or withheld. Through Philip
Willams and Yenna Wu's thought-provoking analysis of such writings,
of the cultural origins of forced labor and imprisonment in
imperial and Communist China, one comes closer to this sinister
reality, which remains to this day one of the best kept secrets of
our planet."--Marie Holzman, President of the Association
Solidarite Chine
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