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- noun The use of
prison labor and prisonfarms in thePeople's Republic of China .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In 1990, China abandoned the term laogai and labeled the detention facilities as "prisons" instead, but Wu maintained that evidence gathered by his foundation suggested that forced labor was "as much a part of its prison system today as it ever was."
Taipei Times 2008
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In any event, it is simply perverse for a president to go to a country with a gulag - in China, it's called "laogai" - and give no signal whatsoever that he knows it: that he knows he is in a country with a gulag.
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Harry Wu (吳弘達), who labored in 12 different camps in China from 1960 to 1979, set up the museum in memory of the millions who he said perished within the camps, known as laogai or reform-through-labor camps.
Taipei Times 2008
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In the 1980s, he exposed the system of forced labour in China and did for the "laogai" what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn did for the gulags of Stalin's Soviet Union.
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Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in China's "laogai" labor camp system, brushed off Google's announcement with a blunt assessment of the company's role in China.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in China's "laogai" labor camp system, brushed off Google's announcement with a blunt assessment of the company's role in China.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Under pressure from MEPs to take action against goods from the "laogai", or labour detention centres, commissioner Stefan Fule said the EU executive "is ready to study the effectiveness of the US law in preventing such imports."
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Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in China's "laogai" labor camp system, brushed off Google's announcement with a blunt assessment of the company's role in China.
R&D Mag - News 2010
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Under pressure from MEPs to take action against goods from the "laogai", or labour detention centres, commissioner Stefan Fule said the EU executive "is ready to study the effectiveness of the US law in preventing such imports."
China News From Sino Daily - Business, Environment and Technology 2010
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Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in China's "laogai" labor camp system, brushed off Google's announcement with a blunt assessment of the company's role in China.
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