Crime and the Chinese Dream

by Børge Bakken

Although official propaganda emphasizes the Chinese Dream as the dream of all Chinese, the opportunities of achieving the prosperity by legal means are distributed unequally. Crime and the Chinese Dream reveals how people on the margins of Chinese society find their way to the Chinese Dream through illegal or deviant behaviours. The case studies in this book include corrupt doctors in public hospitals in Beijing, fraudsters in a village called 'cake...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888208667
• ISBN13: 9789888208661
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"