{"product_id":"the-monster-killer-murder-migration-and-the-making-of-modern-china-9798233604560","title":"The Monster Killer: Murder, Migration, and the Making of Modern China","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Cahir Casey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Silverback Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Silverback Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - Serial Killers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Monster Killer: Murder, Migration, and the Making of Modern China\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early years of the twenty-first century, a man on a bicycle moved through the farming villages of central China and killed sixty-seven people. Yang Xinhai - China's most prolific serial killer - operated across four provinces for three years while provincial police departments failed to share information, rural communities went unwarned by a state committed to the appearance of stability, and the social conditions that had produced him remained unexamined and unaddressed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Monster Killer\u003c\/em\u003e is not simply a true crime narrative. It is a work of historical reckoning that uses one catastrophic criminal career as a lens through which to examine the transformation of Chinese society at the turn of the millennium: the great internal migration of one hundred and fifty million people, the \u003cem\u003ehukou\u003c\/em\u003e system that made migrants legal non-persons in their own country, the labor camp apparatus that deepened criminal formation rather than interrupting it, and the institutional failures of a state that suppressed public warnings in the name of stability while sixty-seven families went to sleep unwarned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on criminology, sociology, mathematics, and the traditions of literary historical narrative, Cahir Casey asks the question that animates the best historical true crime writing: how does a human being become capable of this? The answer he finds implicates not just one man, but an entire society at its most vulnerable moment of transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Silverback Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47568952295575,"sku":"9798233604560","price":2063.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798233604560.webp?v=1774871983","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-monster-killer-murder-migration-and-the-making-of-modern-china-9798233604560","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}