Crime and punishment in post-liberation China: The prisoners of a Beijing gaol in the 1950s

China Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 149, 1997, Pages 147-159

  Dikötter, Frank ^a  

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DOI: 10.1017/s0305741000043678     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. For instance Michael Dutton, Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to "The People" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); an excellent critique of the fragile evidential basis of Button's work and the chasm between official documents and actual reality is made by John Honeyman in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 3, No. 3 (November 1993), pp. 493-95.
2. For instance Michael Dutton, Policing and Punishment in China: From Patriarchy to "The People" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); an excellent critique of the fragile evidential basis of Button's work and the chasm between official documents and actual reality is made by John Honeyman in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 3, No. 3 (November 1993), pp. 493-95.
3. Jean-Luc Domenach, L'archipel oublié (Paris: Fayard, 1992); see also Jean Pasqualini, "Glimpses inside China's gulag," The China Quarterly, No. 134 (June 1993), pp. 352-57.
4. Jean-Luc Domenach, L'archipel oublié (Paris: Fayard, 1992); see also Jean Pasqualini, "Glimpses inside China's gulag," The China Quarterly, No. 134 (June 1993), pp. 352-57.
5. See for instance Jean Pasqualini, Prisonnier de Mao. Sept ans dans un camp de travail en Chine (Paris: Gallimard, 1975); Pu Ning, Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-Six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons (New York: Grove Press, 1994); Harry Wu, Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag (New York: John Wiley, 1994).
6. See for instance Jean Pasqualini, Prisonnier de Mao. Sept ans dans un camp de travail en Chine (Paris: Gallimard, 1975); Pu Ning, Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-Six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons (New York: Grove Press, 1994); Harry Wu, Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag (New York: John Wiley, 1994).
7. See for instance Jean Pasqualini, Prisonnier de Mao. Sept ans dans un camp de travail en Chine (Paris: Gallimard, 1975); Pu Ning, Red in Tooth and Claw: Twenty-Six Years in Communist Chinese Prisons (New York: Grove Press, 1994); Harry Wu, Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag (New York: John Wiley, 1994).
8. Derk Bodde, Peking Diary: A Year of Revolution (New York: Schuman, 1950), p. 67. In the context of this study, the same author's piece on a Beijing prison under the Manchus should also be mentioned; see Derk Bodde, "Prison life in eighteenth-century Peking," in Essays on Chinese Civilization (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), pp. 195-215.
9. Derk Bodde, Peking Diary: A Year of Revolution (New York: Schuman, 1950), p. 67. In the context of this study, the same author's piece on a Beijing prison under the Manchus should also be mentioned; see Derk Bodde, "Prison life in eighteenth-century Peking," in Essays on Chinese Civilization (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981), pp. 195-215.
10. See Xu Juefei, Shu Hongkang, Shao Mingzheng and Yu Qisheng, Laodong gaizaoxue (Reform Through Labour) (Beijing: Qunzhong chubanshe, 1983).
11. The best introduction to judicial procedures in the PRC is Leng Shao-chuan, Justice in Communist China: A Survey of the Judicial System of the Chinese People's Republic (New York: Oceana, 1967); see also Jerome Alan Cohen, The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968); James P. Brady, Justice and Politics in People's China: Legal Order or Continuing Revolution? (London: Academic Press, 1982).
12. The best introduction to judicial procedures in the PRC is Leng Shao-chuan, Justice in Communist China: A Survey of the Judicial System of the Chinese People's Republic (New York: Oceana, 1967); see also Jerome Alan Cohen, The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968); James P. Brady, Justice and Politics in People's China: Legal Order or Continuing Revolution? (London: Academic Press, 1982).
13. The best introduction to judicial procedures in the PRC is Leng Shao-chuan, Justice in Communist China: A Survey of the Judicial System of the Chinese People's Republic (New York: Oceana, 1967); see also Jerome Alan Cohen, The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968); James P. Brady, Justice and Politics in People's China: Legal Order or Continuing Revolution? (London: Academic Press, 1982).
14. Chow Ching-wen, Ten Years of Storm: The True Story of the Communist Regime in China (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1960), p. 143.
15. Zhang Xianliang, Grass Soup (London: Seeker and Warburg, 1993), p. 121.
16. Harry Hongda Wu, Laogai: The Chinese Gulag (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), p. 8.
17. Lev Deliusin, "The I-kuan Tao Society," in Jean Chesneaux (ed.), Popular Movements and Secret Societies in China, 1840-1950 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1972), pp. 225-233.
18. Kenneth Lieberthal, "The suppression of secret societies in post-liberation Tientsin," The China Quarterly, No. 54 (June 1973), pp. 242-266; Kenneth Lieberthal, Revolution and Tradition in Tientsin, 1949-1952 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980), pp. 108-118.
19. Kenneth Lieberthal, "The suppression of secret societies in post-liberation Tientsin," The China Quarterly, No. 54 (June 1973), pp. 242-266; Kenneth Lieberthal, Revolution and Tradition in Tientsin, 1949-1952 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980), pp. 108-118.
20. Laszlo Ladany, The Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985 (London: Hurst & Co., 1988), pp. 180-81.
21. A. Doak Barnett, Communist China: The Early Years, 1949-55 (London: Pall Mall, 1964), pp. 138-141.
22. "Provisions Laid Down by the Economic Practice Investigation Committee for the Disposal of Cases of Corruption and Waste and for the Conquest of Bureaucratic Deviations," Current Background, No. 168 (2 March 1952), p. 4.
23. Frederick C. Teiwes, Politics and Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms. 1950-1965 (New York: Sharpe, second edition, 1993), pp. 107-108.
24. Chow Ching-wen, Ten Years of Storm, pp. 143 and 171.