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Chronology
Introduction
Shuzi / Numbers
1. The Manipulation of Chinese Crime Statistics
Chu ngsh ng / Trauma
2: The Historical Patterns of Crime, Violence, and Trauma
Paichi / Exclusion
3: Transition, Inequality, and Exclusion: Two Kinds of People
Ji nshi / Surveillance
4: Big Brother, Big Bucks, and Big Data: The Chinese Surveillance
State
Yanli / Harshness
5: 'Hard Strikes' and Moral Panics: The Craze of Anti-Crime
Campaigns
Zhengyi / Justice
6: Legal Hierarchies, Punitive Practices, and Changing Norms
7: Concluding Remarks
References
Borge Bakken is Visiting Emeritus Fellow at the Department of Anthropology, School of Culture, History & Language, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University.
"Borge Bakken's incisive analysis reveals China as a far higher
crime society than fraudulent statistics suggest. As we turn the
pages of this sophisticated book, we grasp the evolution of a
society where "the rich get richer and the poor get execution".
This is a monumental contribution to comprehending the devolution
of despotism and dissent. What Bakken describes is a surveillance
capitalist authoritarianism produced by a Chinese Communist Party
that learned from Western tech corporations."
John Braithwaite, University of Maryland
"An engagingly written, evidence-based account that
demolishes long-standing myths about the nature of crime and
punishment in China, not least the regime's efforts to
systematically hide the widespread violence and soaring crime rates
that lurk behind one of the world's most unequal societies."
Frank Dikoetter, University of Hong Kong
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