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Eighteen layers of hell : stories from the Chinese gulag / Kate Saunders.
LIBRA HV8964.C5 S27 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saunders, K. J. (Kate J.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nazi concentration camps--China.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Internment camps--China.
- Internment camps.
- China.
- Political prisoners--China.
- Political prisoners.
- Forced labor--China.
- Forced labor.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 254 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Cassell, [1996]
- Summary:
- How does it feel to be so lonely that the lice infesting your body provide relief from your solitude? How does it feel to be so hungry that you chew at the leather of your shoes until within days there is nothing left? Kate Saunders explores the lives of prisoners who have undergone such experiences in the Chinese laogai, the largest system of forced labor camps in the world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-248) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0304332941
- 0304332976
- OCLC:
- 35685186
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