Hypocrisy : the tales and realities of drug detainees in China /

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Author / Creator:	Cheng, Vincent Shing, author.
Imprint:	Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2019]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Drug abuse -- China. Drug abuse and crime -- China. Drug addicts -- Services for -- China. Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- China. Drug abuse -- China -- Hong Kong. Drug abuse and crime -- China -- Hong Kong. Drug addicts -- Services for. Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation. Drug abuse. Drug abuse and crime. China. China -- Hong Kong. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12372645

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ISBN:	9888455648 9789888455645 9888455680 9789888455683
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 29, 2019).
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.
Other form:	Print version: 9888455680 9789888455683

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