TY - BOOK ID - 78146417 TI - Thought reform and China's dangerous classes : reeducation, resistance, and the people PY - 2013 SN - 1442218398 1283855550 9781442218390 9781283855556 9781442218376 1442218371 9781442218383 PB - Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, DB - UniCat KW - Political culture KW - Education and state KW - Education KW - Communism KW - Culture KW - Political science KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - China KW - Social conditions KW - Politics and government KW - S06/0437 KW - S11/0900 KW - S11/0950 KW - China: Politics and government--Policy towards intellectuals (incl. "thought reform", "brainwashing") KW - China: Social sciences--Social pathology, social deviance (incl. infanticide, abandoned children, hoodlums) KW - China: Social sciences--Prisons and labour camps UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78146417 AB - This book offers the first detailed study of the essential relationship between thought reform and the "dangerous classes"-the prostitutes, beggars, petty criminals, and other "lumpenproletarians" the Communists saw as a threat to society and the revolution. Aminda Smith takes readers inside early-PRC reformatories, where the new state endeavored to transform "vagrants" into members of the laboring masses. As places where "the people" were literally created, these centers became testing grounds for rapidly changing ideas and experiments about thought reform and the subjects t ER -