Hypocrisy : the tales and realities of drug detainees in China / Vincent Shing Cheng.

By:

Cheng, Vincent Shing [Author]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9888455648
9789888455645

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV5840 .H976 2019

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Subject: Although the official propaganda surrounding the drug detainees in China is that of helping, educating, and saving them from their drug habits and the drug dealers who lure them into drug abuse, it is clear, according to Vincent Shing Cheng, that those who have gone through the rehabilitation system lost their trust in the Communist Party's promise of help and consider it a failure. Based on first-hand information and established ideas in prison research, Hypocrisy gives an ethnographic account of reality and experiences of drug detainees in China and provides a glimpse into a population that.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Tales of 'Heroes' and 'Saviours'; 3. Police and the 'Hooks'; 4. Initiation Ceremony in Drug Detention; 5. Prison Authority and the 'Inmate Elites'; 6. Post-discharge Reintegration and Surveillance; 7. Conclusion; Appendix: Basic Information of the Former Drug Detainees; Chinese Glossary; References; Index

Although the official propaganda surrounding the drug detainees in China is that of helping, educating, and saving them from their drug habits and the drug dealers who lure them into drug abuse, it is clear, according to Vincent Shing Cheng, that those who have gone through the rehabilitation system lost their trust in the Communist Party's promise of help and consider it a failure. Based on first-hand information and established ideas in prison research, Hypocrisy gives an ethnographic account of reality and experiences of drug detainees in China and provides a glimpse into a population that.

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