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Also published in The Washington Post. The dark cloud hanging above the People’s Republic of China since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre seems to be dissipating. Many in the West believe that Deng ...

The dissident spent 19 years in a "re-education through labor camp". Released, he fled to the United States from where he began a decades-long battle against the laogai system. Thanks also to his ...

This is the seventh in a series of weekly guides to museums you might not have discovered. At the entrance of the Laogai Museum in Dupont Circle, a small display introduces the Laogai prison system of ...

Now the hated laogai labour camps, where transgressors and dissidents are incarcerated for months of "reform through labour", will provide the first big test for the reforming intentions of the new ...

NEW YORK—“I was 27 years old when I went in and 50 years old when I was let out,“ the man on the video wept. ”Those should be the best years of a person’s life. And now my sons don’t even know me,” he ...

The Laogai system—China’s network of forced labor camps—was designed for punishment, political repression, and economic production. Established under Mao Zedong, it affected millions. This documentary ...

With his teeth cracked and hands bleeding, Wan Guifu struggled to split one more watermelon seed with his teeth. For him working outside in the freezing cold over 10 hours a day came with little ...

“Fifty million people have been thrown into the Laogai prisons, including workers, religious and students,” Wu said, “and half of them become ashes.” Jim Graves Blogs December 3, 2020 China is the ...