The Compelling Ideal

In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China’s prison system, Kiely’s tho...

(展开全部)

In this groundbreaking volume, based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, Jan Kiely explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua) that evolved into a key component of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it was employed in China’s prison system, Kiely’s thought-provoking work brings the history of this critical phenomenon to life through the stories of individuals who conceptualized, implemented, and experienced it, and he details how these techniques were subsequently adapted for broader social and political use.

Table of Contents:
Prologue
Chapter 1: Architects of Penal Reformation in the Late Qing Empire and Early Republic of China, 1900-1920
Chapter 2: Guides to Reform: Prison Instructors in Jiangsu and Beijing, 1918-1927
Chapter 3: Objects of Reformation: Common Prisoners, 1912-1937
Chapter 4: Reformation for Salvation: The Buddhist Movement in the Jails and Prisons of 1920s Zhejiang and Jiangsu
· · · · · · (更多)

Table of Contents:
Prologue
Chapter 1: Architects of Penal Reformation in the Late Qing Empire and Early Republic of China, 1900-1920
Chapter 2: Guides to Reform: Prison Instructors in Jiangsu and Beijing, 1918-1927
Chapter 3: Objects of Reformation: Common Prisoners, 1912-1937
Chapter 4: Reformation for Salvation: The Buddhist Movement in the Jails and Prisons of 1920s Zhejiang and Jiangsu
Chapter 5: A Mechanism for All Offenses: The Nationalist Expansion of the Reformation Regime, 1927-1937
Chapter 6: The Indispensable Regime: Thought Reform in Wartime, 1937-1945
Chapter 7: Revolutionary Thought Reform: The Communist Version, 1946-1956
Conclusion
· · · · · · (收起)