Made in China : a prisoner, an SOS letter, and the hidden cost of America's cheap goods / Amelia Pang.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781664711730
- ISBN: 1664711732
- Physical Description: 6 audio discs (7.07 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone, [2021]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Title from web page. Compact discs. |
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. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Nancy Wu. |
Summary, etc.: | Amelia Pang pulls back the curtain on the labor camps that create the home goods we buy at Kmart, the fast fashion we buy at H&M, and a shocking number of other products besides. The book follows the life of Sun Yi, the Chinese engineer who wrote the note after finding himself a political prisoner, locked in a gulag for joining a forbidden meditation practice and campaigning for the freedom to do so. |
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Subject: | Yi, Sun. Manufacturing industries > Social aspects > China. Costs, Industrial > Social aspects > China. Work environment > China. Political prisoners > China. |
Genre: | Biographies. Audiobooks. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon.
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Made in China : A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
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Made in China : A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29 "Moving and powerful." --Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Discover the truth behind the discounts 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 you occassionally buy this product, please kindly resend this letter to the World Human Right Organization. Thousands people here who are under the persicuton of the Chinese Communist Party Government will thank and remember you forever." The note's author, Sun Yi, was a mild-mannered Chinese engineer turned political prisoner, forced into grueling labor for campaigning for the freedom to join a forbidden meditation movement. He was imprisoned alongside petty criminals, civil rights activists, and tens of thousands of others the Chinese government had decided to "reeducate," carving foam gravestones and stitching clothing for more than fifteen hours a day. In Made in China , investigative journalist Amelia Pang pulls back the curtain on Sun's story and the stories of others like him, including the persecuted Uyghur minority group whose abuse and exploitation is rapidly gathering steam. What she reveals is a closely guarded network of laogai--forced labor camps--that power the rapid pace of American consumerism. Through extensive interviews and firsthand reportage, Pang shows us the true cost of America's cheap goods and shares what is ultimately a call to action--urging us to ask more questions and demand more answers from the companies we patronize.