Hypocrisy : the tales and realities of drug detainees in china / / Vincent Shing Cheng
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| Autore: |
Cheng Vincent Shing
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| Titolo: |
Hypocrisy : the tales and realities of drug detainees in china / / Vincent Shing Cheng
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| Pubblicazione: | PokFuLam, Hong Kong : , : HKU Press, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (173 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 363.450951 |
| Soggetto topico: | Drug abuse - China |
| Note generali: | Also issued in print: 2019. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [140]-156) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Tales 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Hypocrisy |
| ISBN: | 988-8455-64-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818318403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Hong Kong scholarship online.