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Made in China : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods Cover Image Book

Made in China : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods / Amelia Pang.

Prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods (other title)
Pang, Amelia, 1991- (author.).

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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  • ISBN: 9781616209179
  • ISBN: 1616209178
  • ISBN: 9781643752068
  • ISBN: 1643752065
  • Physical Description: 278 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-278).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

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Subject:
Yi, Sun.
Manufacturing industries > Social aspects > China.
Costs, Industrial > Social aspects > China.
Work environment > China.
Political prisoners > China.
Forced labor > China.
Human rights > China.
Human rights.
China > Social conditions > 2000-
China.
Genre:
Biographies.

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