The Compelling Ideal
Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956
ISBN:
9780300185942
Date published:
July 2014
Hardback
Price:
£40.00 Based on extensive research in Chinese archives and libraries, the author 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.