In this Book
- Crime and the Chinese Dream
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
summary
Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese, the opportunities of achieving the prosperity by legal means are distributed unequally. Crime and the Chinese Dream reveals how people on the margins of Chinese society find their way to the Chinese Dream through illegal or deviant behaviours. The case studies in this book include corrupt doctors in public hospitals in Beijing, fraudsters in a village called ‘cake uncles’, illegal motorcycle taxi drivers in Guangzhou, drug users being ‘re-educated’ in detention centres, and internet-addicts who are treated as criminals by the system. Despite the patriotic and collectivistic tint of the official dream metaphor, the contributors to this volume show that the Chinese Dream is essentially a state capitalist dream, which is embedded within the problems and opportunities of capitalism, as well as a dream of control.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Contributors
- pp. 155-156
Additional Information
ISBN
9789888455119
Related ISBN(s)
9789888208661
MARC Record
OCLC
1031529131
Pages
180
Launched on MUSE
2018-05-16
Language
English
Open Access
No