Crime and the Chinese Dream.

By:

Bakken, Børge [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9789888455119
9888455117

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV7118 .C756 2017

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Contents:

Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A State of Contradiction -- 3. 'Cake Uncles' -- 4. Social Exclusion and Criminal Victimization -- 5. Tales of Rehabilitation and Realities of Pain -- 6. War with the Internet Demon -- Contributors -- Index.

Subject: Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese, the opportunities of achieving the prosperity by legal means are distributed unequally. Crime and the Chinese Dream reveals how people on the margins of Chinese society find their way to the Chinese Dream through illegal or deviant behaviours. The case studies in this book include corrupt doctors in public hospitals in Beijing, fraudsters in a village called 'cake uncles', illegal motorcycle taxi drivers in Guangzhou, drug users being 're-educated' in detention centres, and internet addicts who are treated as criminals by the system. Despite the patriotic and collectivistic tint of the official dream metaphor, the contributors to this volume show that the Chinese Dream is essentially a state capitalist dream, which is embedded within the problems and opportunities of capitalism, as well as a dream of control.

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HV7118.5 .756 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1073057304

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A State of Contradiction -- 3. 'Cake Uncles' -- 4. Social Exclusion and Criminal Victimization -- 5. Tales of Rehabilitation and Realities of Pain -- 6. War with the Internet Demon -- Contributors -- Index.

Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese, the opportunities of achieving the prosperity by legal means are distributed unequally. Crime and the Chinese Dream reveals how people on the margins of Chinese society find their way to the Chinese Dream through illegal or deviant behaviours. The case studies in this book include corrupt doctors in public hospitals in Beijing, fraudsters in a village called 'cake uncles', illegal motorcycle taxi drivers in Guangzhou, drug users being 're-educated' in detention centres, and internet addicts who are treated as criminals by the system. Despite the patriotic and collectivistic tint of the official dream metaphor, the contributors to this volume show that the Chinese Dream is essentially a state capitalist dream, which is embedded within the problems and opportunities of capitalism, as well as a dream of control.

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