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

Pang, Amelia, 1991- author.

Book

First edition

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021

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.

Yi, Sun.

Manufacturing industries -- Social aspects -- China.

Costs, Industrial -- Social aspects -- China.

Work environment -- China.

Political prisoners -- China.

Biographies.

Prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-278).

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.

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