| Abstract | The extensive imprisonments that took place in China during the 1950s and 1960s form the basis of study of a severely traumatizing, collective, national experience of mammoth proportions. According to conservative estimates, approximately fifty million Chinese citizens were interned, many of them for so-called counterrevolutionary crimes. Here, Muhlhahn demonstrates the nature, extent and aftermath of the trauma of imprisonment by analyzing three autobiographical texts that describe captivity in China's labor camps.
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