Laogai--the Chinese Gulag
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Laogai--the Chinese Gulag

  1. 247 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Laogai--the Chinese Gulag

About this book

In this work, the author reveals the hidden world of the "laogaidui" - the PRC's labour reform camps. The author, a political prisoner for 19 years, takes the reader through the harsh reality found in the camps, describing their ideological origins, complex structures and living conditions. What makes the PRC's "laogaidui" unique, according to Wu, is the essential contribution to China's GNP of the commodities produced by the prisoners and the camps' concomitant indispensability to the nation's economic health.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface and Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 Convicted Labor Reform (Laogai)
  11. 3 Reeducation Through Labor (Laojiao)
  12. 4 Forced Job Placement (Jiuye)
  13. 5 Labor Reform Under Deng Xiaoping
  14. Afterword
  15. Appendix 1: Information on 990 Labor Reform Camps
  16. Appendix 2: Commodities of the Labor Reform Camps of the People's Republic of China as of March 1990
  17. Appendix 3: Three Sample Laogaidui
  18. Appendix 4: Volvo-Chinter Case
  19. Appendix 5: A List of Nine Industrial Labor Reform Enterprises That Have Attained the Standard of National Second-Level Enterprises
  20. About the Author, Ted Slingerland
  21. About the Book
  22. Index