LEADER 02732nam 2200469 450 001 9910793548903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a988-8455-64-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000007986939 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002088801 035 $a(OCoLC)1097578824 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse74637 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5751577 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5751577 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007986939 100 $a20190510d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHypocrisy $ethe tales and realities of drug detainees in china /$fVincent Shing Cheng 210 1$aPokFuLam, Hong Kong :$cHKU Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (173 pages) 225 1 $aHong Kong scholarship online 300 $aAlso issued in print: 2019. 311 $a988-8455-68-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [140]-156) and index. 327 $aTales of 'heroes' and 'saviours' -- Police and the 'hooks' -- Initiation ceremony in drug detention -- Prison authority and the 'inmate elites' -- Post-discharge reintegration and surveillance -- Appendix. Basic information of the former drug detainees. 330 $aAlthough the official propaganda surrounding the drug detainees in China is that of helping, educating, and saving them from their drug habits and the drug dealers who lure them into drug abuse, it is clear, according to Vincent Shing Cheng, that those who have gone through the rehabilitation system lost their trust in the Communist Party's promise of help and consider it a failure. Based on first-hand information and established ideas in prison research, Hypocrisy gives an ethnographic account of reality and experiences of drug detainees in China and provides a glimpse into a population that is very hard to reach and study. Cheng argues that there is a discrepancy between the propaganda of 'helping' and 'saving' drug users in detention or rehabilitation centres and the reality of 'humiliating' them and making them prime targets of control. Such a discrepancy is possibly threatening rather than enhancing the party-state's legitimacy. He concludes the book by demonstrating how the gulf between rhetoric and reality can illuminate many other systems, even in much less extreme societies than China. 410 0$aHong Kong scholarship online. 606 $aDrug abuse$zChina 615 0$aDrug abuse 676 $a363.450951 700 $aCheng$b Vincent Shing$01565046 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793548903321 996 $aHypocrisy$93834364 997 $aUNINA