Peter Zinoman is Associate Professor of Southeast Asian History at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Zinoman makes original contributions on multiple fronts, including colonial systems; prisons as social institutions; political life in prison; public campaigns concerning prisons; and released prisoners in action. He also takes us beyond the colonial/anticolonial, nationalist/communist, and war/peace dichotomies that have long dominated Vietnam studies." - David Marr, author of Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 "This is a wonderful, lucidly argued, and meticulously documented book." - Ann Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things"

• Acknowledgments List of Maps and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Origins of the Ill-Disciplined Prison 2. The System: Fragmented Order and Integrative Dynamics 3. The Regime: Surveillance, Forced Labor, and Total Care 4. Prisoners and Prison Society 5. Colonial Prisons in Revolt, 1862 - 1930 6. The Thai Nguyen Rebellion 7. Prison Cells and Party Cells: The Indochinese Communist Party in Prison, 1930 - 1936 8. Prisons and the Colonial Press, 1933 - 1939 9. The Prisoner Released Epilogue Glossary Select Bibliography Index