Eighteen Layers of Hell
Stories from the Chinese Gulag
Kate Saunders(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 22. August 1996
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-304-33294-6 (ISBN)
Description
Since the foundation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, it is claimed that more than 30 million people have been starved, beaten or tortured to death, "suicided" or executed in Chinese labour camps. This study also claims that millions of people still suffer in the camps today, and that the West participates in the iniquitous system of slave labour, through trading goods produced in the laogai, and dealing in transplant organs from prisoners executed to order. The book tells the story of Harry Wu, a veteran of the laogai, and a vociferous campaigner against the Gulag, who was recently arrested on a research trip to China, and who wrote the foreword to this book. The author, Kate Saunders, is a founder of the Laogai Research Group in the UK, and led the recent campaign for Harry Wu's release from Chinese custody. The book has been published to coincide with her TV documentary on the Chinese labour camps.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Media tie-in
Illustrations
8pp plates
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-304-33294-6 (9780304332946)
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