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03226aam a2200445 i 4500 001 D666A9D2E91F11EBA30FCA7D3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210720010039 008 210614t20212021enkaf e 000 0deng d 020 $a 1950354520 020 $a 9781950354528 035 $a (OCoLC)1258266533 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d APL $d OCLCO $d JAS $d GO3 $d YDX $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a a-cc-su 082 04 $a 305.894/345051 $2 23 100 1 $a Sauytbay, Sayragul, $e author. 240 10 $a Kronzeugin. $l English 245 10 $a Chief witness : escape from China's modern-day concentration camps / $c Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius ; translated by Caroline Waight. 264 1 $a London : $b Scribe Publications, $c 2021. 300 $a 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a "First published in German in 2020 by Europa Verlag as Die Kronzeugin"--Title page verso. 520 $a "Born in China's north-western province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime: being Kazakh, one of China's ethnic minorities. The north-western province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in China that is closest to Europe. In recent years it has become home to over 1,200 penal camps--modern-day gulags that are estimated to house three million members of the Kazakh and Uyghur minorities. Imprisoned solely due to their ethnicity, inmates are subjected to relentless punishment and torture, including being beaten, raped, and used as subjects for medical experiments. The camps represent the greatest systematic incarceration of an entire people since the Third Reich. In prison, Sauytbay was put to work teaching Chinese language, culture, and politics, in the course of which she gained access to secret information that revealed Beijing's long-term plans to undermine not only its minorities, but democracies around the world. Upon her escape to Europe she was reunited with her family, but still lives under constant threat of reprisal. This rare testimony from the biggest surveillance state in the world reveals not only the full, frightening scope of China's tyrannical ambitions, but also the resilience and courage of its author"--Back cover. 600 10 $a Sauytbay, Sayragul. 650 0 $a Kazakhs $z Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu $z Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Ethnic conflict $z Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu. $z Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu. 650 0 $a Uighur (Turkic people) $z Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu. $z Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu. 651 0 $a Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) 700 1 $a Cavelius, Alexandra, $e author. 700 1 $a Waight, Caroline, $e translator. 941 $a 8 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221108010322.0 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20220721010144.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013746.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317040905.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20211215032640.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20211102013329.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20210803010914.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210720010916.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D666A9D2E91F11EBA30FCA7D3BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search