Made in China a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods
"In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap foam headstones had been five dollars at Kmart, too good a deal to pass up. But when she opened the box, something shocking fell out: an SOS letter, handwritten in broken English. "Sir: If...
| Main Author: | Pang, Amelia, 1991- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chapel Hill, North Carolina :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2022.
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| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of 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 we can do.