Made in China : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods /
Amelia Pang.
- 278 pages ; 24 cm
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"--
9781616209179 (hardcover) 1616209178 (hardcover)
2020034508
Manufacturing industries--Social aspects.--China Industrias manufactureras--China Costs, Industrial--Social aspects.--China Costos de producción--China Work environment--China. Productividad industrial--China