单词 | reform through labour camp |
释义 | > as lemmasreform through labour camp reform through labour: the use of intensive programmes of physical labour as a means of reforming criminals; the system of forced labour resulting from this; esp. (in China) the theory or policy whereby criminals and dissidents are made to work as part of a programme of political re-education. Frequently attributive (usually hyphenated), as reform through labour camp, reform through labour farm, etc. [after Chinese láodòng gǎizào ( < láodòng (verb) to labour, (noun) labour + gǎizào (verb) to reform, transform), or its abbreviated form láogǎi.] ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > politics in India and Far East > [noun] > Chinese politics > principles or policies Tai-pingism1860 Boxerism1900 reform through labour1913 Sun Yat-senism1925 Maoism1950 rectification1956 Great Leap Forward1958 1913 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Soc. Sci. 46 35 (title) Reform through labor. 1951 Pacific Affairs 24 70 The men were jailed and eventually put into labor gangs breaking up rocks in the streets (‘reform through labour’). 1957 P. S. H. Tang Communist China Today v. 247 The theoretical basis for the policy of ‘reform through labor’ was stated by Mao Tse-tung in his 1949 report On People's Democratic Dictatorship..promising that ‘reactionaries’ who desisted from counter-revolutionary activities would not be put to death but would be given work in order to ‘reform themselves through labour so as to become new men’. 1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xxi. 156 He inspects reform-through-labour farms. 1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) xlvii. 361 No one is entitled to assume that ‘reform through labor’ in China is administered by humanitarians. 1977 China Now July 13/3 Bao spent seven years undergoing Reform Through Labour (Lao Dong Gai Zao) having been arrested in 1957. 1989 C. Chambers Story of Unity Theatre iv. 135 Aristocrats deals with the building by prisoners of the White Sea Canal, at the time the most lauded of Stalin's ‘reform-through-labour’ schemes. 1991 J. Chang Wild Swans (1993) xxii. 510 I asked a nice propaganda team man, Dong-an, who was taking us to our destination, who these zombielike people were. Convicts from a lao-gai (‘reform through labor’) camp, he replied. < as lemmas |
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