Political Imprisonment In The People's Republic Of China
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At the height of Cold War geopolitics and amid the world's growing fascination with the newly opened People's Republic of China, Amnesty International published a landmark report that pulled back the curtain on a system of state repression largely hidden from Western eyes. Political Imprisonment in the People's Republic of China presents a meticulously documented account of the Chinese government's use of detention, forced labour, and judicial persecution against those deemed enemies of the state — dissidents, religious practitioners, ethnic minorities, and political opponents — cataloguing a vast architecture of control that operated far beyond the reach of international law or public scrutiny. As one of Amnesty International's most significant country-specific reports of its era, this work stands as a critical historical document in the canon of human rights literature. Written in the measured, authoritative voice characteristic of Amnesty's investigative methodology, it argues with unflinching clarity that systematic political imprisonment was not an aberration but a structural pillar of the Chinese Communist Party's rule. The report's findings challenged diplomatic narratives of normalisation and left an enduring question hanging in the air: when a government's power rests upon silence, who bears the cost of the world's willingness to look away?
Author: Amnesty International
Format: Paperback
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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At the height of Cold War geopolitics and amid the world's growing fascination with the newly opened People's Republic of China, Amnesty International published a landmark report that pulled back the curtain on a system of state repression largely hidden from Western eyes. Political Imprisonment in the People's Republic of China presents a meticulously documented account of the Chinese government's use of detention, forced labour, and judicial persecution against those deemed enemies of the state — dissidents, religious practitioners, ethnic minorities, and political opponents — cataloguing a vast architecture of control that operated far beyond the reach of international law or public scrutiny. As one of Amnesty International's most significant country-specific reports of its era, this work stands as a critical historical document in the canon of human rights literature. Written in the measured, authoritative voice characteristic of Amnesty's investigative methodology, it argues with unflinching clarity that systematic political imprisonment was not an aberration but a structural pillar of the Chinese Communist Party's rule. The report's findings challenged diplomatic narratives of normalisation and left an enduring question hanging in the air: when a government's power rests upon silence, who bears the cost of the world's willingness to look away?