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

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"--

Item details

ISBN: 9781616209179
ISBN: 1616209178
ISBN: 9781643751139
Physical Description: print
278 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Contents / Notes

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.