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The dissident spent 19 years in a "re-education through labor camp". Released, he fled to the United States from where he began a decades-long battle against the laogai system. Thanks also to his ...

"In China, they want you to become [a] new socialist person, and that's the purpose of the labor camps," says Harry Wu, a survivor of the prison system known as "Laogai," which means "reform through ...

Now the hated laogai labour camps, where transgressors and dissidents are incarcerated for months of "reform through labour", will provide the first big test for the reforming intentions of the new ...

This is the seventh in a series of weekly guides to museums you might not have discovered. At the entrance of the Laogai Museum in Dupont Circle, a small display introduces the Laogai prison system of ...

The faded patchwork coat and pants once belonged to an accused counterrevolutionary named Liu Zhuanghuan, who spent a decade at a forced labor camp during China’s brutal Cultural Revolution. His son ...