China is the only major world power to have entered the twenty-first century with a thriving prison camp network—a frightening, mostly hidden realm known since 1951 as the laogai system. This book, the most comprehensive study of China's prison camps to date, draws from a wide range of primary sources, including many compelling literary documents, to illuminate life inside China's prison camps. Focusing mainly on the second half of the twentieth century, Philip F. Williams and Yenna Wu outline the evolution of the laogai system, construct a vivid picture of prisoners' lives from arrest and interrogation to release, and provide a troubling new perspective on the human rights issues plaguing China.

The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage

Literature & Fiction

Wu, Yenna

Williams, Philip F.

History & Criticism

University of California Press

This lively volume makes speaking and understanding Chinese relatively easy for English-speaking learners. After outlining the sound system of Chinese, the book introduces basic sentence patterns and key vocabulary through a wide variety of practical, true-to-life, and often humorous conversational situations. The book's final chapter introduces readers to the use of written characters. Practice exercises.

Chinese: The Easy Way (Easy Way Series)

B E S Pub Co

Titles in Barrons Easy Way series are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide range of subjects and skills. Among them are several language-learning books for beginners. This second edition of Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way comes with an audio compact disc that supplements the book, providing pronunciation help and listening comprehension material in the form of spoken dialogues. This book-and-CD combination introduces basic sentence patterns and practical vocabulary by dramatizing many true-to-life and often humorous conversational situations in Mandarin Chinese. An introduction to Chinese written characters is presented in the books final chapter.

Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way

Barron's Educational Series

This study surveys the literary career of Wu Zuxiang, one of China's most distinguished writers on rural life. The author traces Wu's development as both writer and social critic, using a combination of literary analysis, primary material and biographical and historical research.

Village Echoes: The Fiction Of Wu Zuxiang

History

Asia

Westview Press

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