Made in China
A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 278 pages ; 24 cm
"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.
Contents:
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.
Subjects:
Manufacturing industries -- Social aspects -- China.
Costs, Industrial -- Social aspects -- China.
Work environment -- China.
Political prisoners -- China.
Manufacturing industries -- Social aspects -- China.
Costs, Industrial -- Social aspects -- China.
Work environment -- China.
Political prisoners -- China.
ISBN:
9781616209179
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BUSINESS Pan | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-278).