Limitations of Transitional Justice in the PRC: the Curious Absence of the inoffizielle Mitarbeiter
(2013) Justice and Accountability in Maoist China and After- Abstract
- My paper begins with some brief observations on the existing literature on the Chinese Communist Party’s post-Mao reversal of so-called unjust, wrong, and false cases. The paper then proceeds to examine a noteworthy difference between the PRC case and transitional justice in other states where “the transitional” entailed a further shift in power from an ancien regime to an entirely new order (viz. Eastern Europe after 1989): the complete absence from the Chinese public record of the inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (teqing in Chinese). Drawing on Chinese Public Security files, I argue that his/her absence from accounts of injustices and justice should not be interpreted as evidence of the teqing not actually having been present in Mao Zedong’s... (More)
- My paper begins with some brief observations on the existing literature on the Chinese Communist Party’s post-Mao reversal of so-called unjust, wrong, and false cases. The paper then proceeds to examine a noteworthy difference between the PRC case and transitional justice in other states where “the transitional” entailed a further shift in power from an ancien regime to an entirely new order (viz. Eastern Europe after 1989): the complete absence from the Chinese public record of the inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (teqing in Chinese). Drawing on Chinese Public Security files, I argue that his/her absence from accounts of injustices and justice should not be interpreted as evidence of the teqing not actually having been present in Mao Zedong’s socio-political reality. Public Security organs had, in many of the categories of cases reviewed in the post-Mao transitional justice system, regulalry and routinely employed the operational instrument of the teqing to obtain (fabricate?) evidence and secure (false?) convictions. (Less)
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- author
- Schoenhals, Michael LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Contribution to conference
- publication status
- unpublished
- subject
- keywords
- China, law, justice, Cultural Revolution, informers, inoffizielle Mitarbeiter
- pages
- 15 pages
- conference name
- Justice and Accountability in Maoist China and After
- conference location
- München, Germany
- conference dates
- 2013-03-08
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- f3493e1f-fa04-48b5-83c2-3d83cfd5c862 (old id 4246971)
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- 2016-04-04 13:01:33
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- 2023-04-18 18:14:25
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abstract = {{My paper begins with some brief observations on the existing literature on the Chinese Communist Party’s post-Mao reversal of so-called unjust, wrong, and false cases. The paper then proceeds to examine a noteworthy difference between the PRC case and transitional justice in other states where “the transitional” entailed a further shift in power from an ancien regime to an entirely new order (viz. Eastern Europe after 1989): the complete absence from the Chinese public record of the inoffizielle Mitarbeiter (teqing in Chinese). Drawing on Chinese Public Security files, I argue that his/her absence from accounts of injustices and justice should not be interpreted as evidence of the teqing not actually having been present in Mao Zedong’s socio-political reality. Public Security organs had, in many of the categories of cases reviewed in the post-Mao transitional justice system, regulalry and routinely employed the operational instrument of the teqing to obtain (fabricate?) evidence and secure (false?) convictions.}},
author = {{Schoenhals, Michael}},
keywords = {{China; law; justice; Cultural Revolution; informers; inoffizielle Mitarbeiter}},
language = {{eng}},
title = {{Limitations of Transitional Justice in the PRC: the Curious Absence of the inoffizielle Mitarbeiter}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/6038786/4246972.pdf}},
year = {{2013}},
}