Thought reform and China's dangerous classes [[electronic resource] ] : reeducation, resistance, and the people / / Aminda M. Smith

• Autore: Smith Aminda M. <1973->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.0951
• Soggetto topico: Political culture - China - History - 20th century; Education and state - China - History - 20th century; Education - Social aspects - China - History - 20th century; Communism - China - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: China Social conditions 1949-1976; China Politics and government 1949-1976
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Finding a Place for the Lumpenproletariat; Chapter Two: The People versus Their Enemies; Chapter Three: The Curriculum of Consciousness Raising; Chapter Four: The Laboring Masses; Chapter Five: The People Stand Up; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers the first detailed study of the essential relationship between thought reform and the "dangerous classes"-the prostitutes, beggars, petty criminals, and other "lumpenproletarians" the Communists saw as a threat to society and the revolution. Aminda Smith takes readers inside early-PRC reformatories, where the new state endeavored to transform "vagrants" into members of the laboring masses. As places where "the people" were literally created, these centers became testing grounds for rapidly changing ideas and experiments about thought reform and the subjects t
• Titolo autorizzato: Thought reform and China's dangerous classes
• ISBN: 1-4422-1839-8; 1-283-85555-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463009503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives