Ankang

State broadcaster China Central Television showed footage of soldiers and rescue workers searching through rubble and mud for survivors of a landslide in Ankang city in the northern province of Shaanxi, where 14 people have died and 35 remained missing as of Wednesday.

China Floods (PHOTOS): 700 Killed, Worst Death Toll In Over A Decade 2010

Acting on information from local residents, reporters for the vernacular "Apple Daily" found files on about 500 former detainees tossed like garbage in the abandoned Ankang Reception Center in Hsintien, Taipei County Tuesday evening.

White Terror Documents and Human Body Parts Found Abandoned Michael Turton 2009

Acting on information from local residents, reporters for the vernacular "Apple Daily" found files on about 500 former detainees tossed like garbage in the abandoned Ankang Reception Center in Hsintien, Taipei County Tuesday evening.

Archive 2009-03-01 Michael Turton 2009

According to Munro's account in Dangerous Minds, "Zhu," fifty-seven, an army veteran, Communist Party member, and retired worker, had been diagnosed as a "paranoid psychotic" and probably confined in one of China's special Ankang.

Political Maniacs 2008

His fate in the Ankang asylums is unknown, as is almost always the case.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

According to Munro's account in Dangerous Minds, "Zhu," fifty-seven, an army veteran, Communist Party member, and retired worker, had been diagnosed as a "paranoid psychotic" and probably confined in one of China's special Ankang.

Archive 2008-01-01 2008

His fate in the Ankang asylums is unknown, as is almost always the case.

Political Maniacs 2008

Such is the nature of Chinese official secrecy that a serious investigation of the Ankang has never been possible, and the WPA is unlikely to succeed where other more powerful bodies have failed.

China's Psychiatric Terror Mirsky, Jonathan 2003

The government's eventual goal is to establish one Ankang center for every city in China with a population of one million or above.

China's Psychiatric Terror Mirsky, Jonathan 2003

At its triennial congress in Yokohama last September, the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) overwhelmingly voted to send a delegation to China to investigate charges that dissidents were being imprisoned and maltreated as "political maniacs" both in regular mental hospitals and in police-run psychiatric custodial institutions known as the Ankang.

China's Psychiatric Terror Mirsky, Jonathan 2003