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Faculty of Arts: Colloquium Talk (Term 2, 2015-16) – Professor Jan Kiely on Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901 – 1956

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日期:

2016年5月13日

時間:

下午4時至6時

地點:

馮景禧樓G24室(人文雅集)

講者:

Professor Jan Kiely中國研究中心

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電話: 3943 7107 (葉小姐)

講座摘要:

Professor Kiely will introduce his recent book, The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956 (Yale University Press, 2014), which explores the pre-Communist origins of the process of systematic thought reform or reformation (ganhua 感化) that evolved into the Communists “thought reform” (思想改造) regime – a key component of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary restructuring of Chinese society. Focusing on ganhua as it originated in China’s early twentieth-century prison system, this study brings the history of this critical phenomenon to life through the stories of individuals who conceptualized, implemented, and experienced it, and details how these techniques were subsequently adapted for broader social and political uses.