1st Edition

Laogai--the Chinese Gulag

By Hongda Harry Wu Copyright 1992
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

247 Pages
by Routledge

"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... Read more

The organization and distribution of labour reform camps; convicted labour reform ("laogai"); re-education through labour; forced job placement.

Biography

Wu, Hongda Harry