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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.
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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.