Description
| Product ID: | 9780813317694 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Laogai--the Chinese Gulag |
| Authors: | Author: Hongda Harry Wu |
| Page Count: | 264 |
| Subjects: | Penology and punishment, Prisons, Political oppression and persecution, Political oppression & persecution, China |
| Description: | This work reveals the hidden world of the "laogaidui" - the PRC's labour reform camps. The author, a political prisoner for 19 years, describes their ideological origins, complex structures and living conditions and analyzes the camps' contribution to the economic health of the PRC. "Avoiding sensationalism or self-pity, what Mr. Wu has given us is the unemotional and authoritative reference work long needed to complement the vivid but anecdotal accounts of individual prisoners. . . . a comprehensive . . . expose, laying out, in the greatest detail yet available, the history, policies, command structure and scale of the largest remaining communist gulag".--"Wall Street Journal" |
| Imprint Name: | Westview Press Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1992-11-16 |
