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by Frank Dikötter (Author)
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 Dikötter is a lecturer in history at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China (Columbia) and Sex, Culture and Modernity in Modern China.
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