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Smuggled out of the People's Republic of China, this collection of shocking photographs vividly and eloquently exposes the abysmal human rights record of one of the world's most authoritarian states, giving lie to the widespread notion that China is heading towards democracy. With essays from leading Chinese scholar Andrew Nathan and dissident Harry Wu, Laogai discusses the wide range of challenges faced by China - from freedom of expression and religion to police brutality, state execution and more. Carefully researched and filled with tales of eye-opening horror.

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Nan Richardson is an editor, writer, and curator. Co-author of Pandemic: Facing AIDS (2003), Havana (2002), Louise Dahl-Wolfe (2000), The White-T (1996), Drag Diaries (1995) and contributor to periodicals including The LA Times Magazine, The Boston Review of Books, Stern, Granta, Interview, Art News, Artforum, Art in America. Former editor of Aperture magazine. Growing up in the throes of a Communist purge in China, Harry Wu pent nineteen years in the Chinese gulag, known as the laogi, where he survived physical and psychological torture. After his release, Wu worked in the United States first as an unpaid visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and then found a graveyard shift at a

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