RT Book
T1 Crime and the Chinese dream
A2 Bakken, Børge
LA English
PP Hong Kong
PB HKU Press
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1025290526
AB "Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese, the opportunities of achieving prosperity by legal means are distributed unequally. [This book] reveals how people on the margins of Chinese society find their way to the Chinese Dream through illegal or deviant behaviors. 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 "reeducated" in detention centers, 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"--Back cover
CN HV7118.5
SN 9789888208661
K1 Crime : China : Sociological aspects
K1 China : Social conditions : 2000-
K1 Aufsatzsammlung
K1 China : Kriminalität : Soziale Situation