One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison
by
Xu Hongci
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
"A masterpiece." —The Washington Post
"It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days."
Mao Zedong’s labor reform camps, known as the laogai, were notoriously brutal. Modeled on the Soviet Gulag, they subjected their inmates to backbreaking labor,...