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Author Cheng, Vincent Shing, author.

Title Hypocrisy : the tales and realities of drug detainees in China / Vincent Shing Cheng.

Publication Info. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Tales of 'Heroes' and 'Saviours'; 3. Police and the 'Hooks'; 4. Initiation Ceremony in Drug Detention; 5. Prison Authority and the 'Inmate Elites'; 6. Post-discharge Reintegration and Surveillance; 7. Conclusion; Appendix: Basic Information of the Former Drug Detainees; Chinese Glossary; References; Index
Summary 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.
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Subject Drug abuse -- China.
Drug abuse.
China.
Drug abuse and crime -- China.
Drug abuse and crime.
Drug addicts -- Services for -- China.
Drug addicts -- Services for.
Drug addicts.
Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- China.
Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation.
Drug abuse -- China -- Hong Kong.
China -- Hong Kong.
Drug abuse and crime -- China -- Hong Kong.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9888455680 9789888455683 (OCoLC)1051674546
ISBN 9888455648 (electronic book)
9789888455645 (electronic book)
9888455680
9789888455683