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Definition of Laogai

1. the system of forced labor camps in China [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laogai

Literary usage of Laogai

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forced Labor in China: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International by United States Government Printing Office, United States, Committee on International Relations, Congress, House (1998)
"In 1995, Ms. Shieh started to work for the laogai Research Foundation and is ... He has also served as the director of the laogai Research Foundation and ..."

2. Cutting Off the Serpent's Head: Tightening Control in Tibet, 1994-1995 by Tibet Information Network, Robert Barnett, Human Rights Watch/Asia, Human Rights Watch (Organization) (1996)
"Reform-through-labor centers (Chinese: laogai) These also house prisoners ... Chinese authorities have said that laogai are for male prisoners serving ..."

3. Continuing Crackdown in Inner Mongolia by Asia Watch Committee (U.S.), Asia Watch Committee (U.S., Human Rights Watch (Organization), Human Rights Watch (Organization (1992)
"WU:Lists of labor-reform camps, prisons and other detention units compiled by Harry Wu, and cited with permission from his forthcoming book : laogai: The ..."

4. U.S.-China Relations: An Affirmative Agenda, a Responsible Course: Report of by Carla A. Hills, Dennis C. Blair, Frank Sampson Jannuzi (2007)
"China has also begun to debate its reeducation through a labor (laogai) detention system that dates back to the mid-1950s. Some prominent Chinese legal ..."

5. Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages by Robin Munro (1996)
"Two of these were sent to be dealt with by law-enforcement agencies, three were sent to be rehabilitated through labor reform (laogai), sixteen were sent to ..."

6. From the Household to the Factory: Sex Discrimination in the Guatemalan by Judith Sunderland (2002)
"Reeducation through labor—sometimes labeled rehabilitation through labor—is not to be confused with reform though labor (laodong gaizao or laogai), ..."

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