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Made in China : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods / Amelia Pang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021Description: 278 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781616209179 (hardcover)
  • 1616209178 (hardcover)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.11/732
LOC classification:
  • HD 9736 P191m 2021
Contents:
Prologue. A message from the graveyard -- The brink of death -- Laogai nation -- Who was Sun Yi? -- Rebel meditators -- Entering Masanjia -- Audits and subterfuge -- Desire and denial -- Ghost work -- A Laogai love letter -- Dangerous words -- Historical complicity -- Transplanted -- Wrong answers -- Legal channels -- We made it -- Fight and flight -- Blending in -- Jakarta -- The state of camps today -- Epilogue. What can we do.
Summary: "After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political prisoner, sentenced without trial to work grueling hours at a "reeducation" camp-manufacturing the products sold in our own big-box stores"-- Provided by publisher.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HD 9736 P191m 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000150192

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-278)

Prologue. A message from the graveyard --
The brink of death --
Laogai nation --
Who was Sun Yi? --
Rebel meditators --
Entering Masanjia --
Audits and subterfuge --
Desire and denial --
Ghost work --
A Laogai love letter --
Dangerous words --
Historical complicity --
Transplanted --
Wrong answers --
Legal channels --
We made it --
Fight and flight --
Blending in --
Jakarta --
The state of camps today --
Epilogue. What can we do.

"After an Oregon mother finds an SOS letter in a box of Halloween decorations, a story unfolds about the man who wrote it: a Chinese political prisoner, sentenced without trial to work grueling hours at a "reeducation" camp-manufacturing the products sold in our own big-box stores"-- Provided by publisher.

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