A few of these include scaring the nation about both an internal and external threat; arbitrarily detaining citizens; creating secret prisons where torture is permitted; controlling the
press; and treating political dissident
as traitors.
[8] Rey Chow cites the Italian expression «traduttore, traditore» (translator,
traitor) in her discussion of film
as ethnography, in Chow, Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (New York: Columbia University
Press, 1995), pp. 182 - 184.