Includes questions for discussion. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-278).
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 -- Historicalcomplicity -- Transplanted -- Wrong answers -- Legal channels -- We made it -- Fight and flight -- Blending in -- Jakarta -- The state of camps today -- Epilogue: What we can 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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