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 ...

“Laogai,” a contraction of two Chinese words, literally means “reform through labor.” Sitting in the Washington office of the Laogai Research Foundation he created 16 years ago, Harry Wu speaks with ...

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Originally published July 14, 2015. Original text below: "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 ...

"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 ...

In 1987, when Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo finally lifted martial law after nearly forty years, Taiwan's Government Information held its first Taipei International Book Exhibition. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Laogai system—China’s network of forced labor camps—was designed for punishment, political repression, and economic production. Established under Mao Zedong, it affected millions. This documentary ...