01852cam a2200337 i 4500 488713373 TxAuBib 20210223120000.0 200811s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020034508 9781616209179 1616209178 (OCoLC)1184122370 TxAuBib rda Pang, Amelia, 1991- Made in China : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods / Amelia Pang. First edition. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. 278 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278). 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. 20210223. Manufacturing industries Social aspects China. Costs, Industrial Social aspects China. Work environment China. Political prisoners China.