MADE IN CHINA : a prisoner, an sos letter, and the hidden cost of america's cheap goods.
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[Place of publication not identified] : ALGONQUIN OF CHAPEL HILL, 2022.
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288 pages ; 21 cm
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[Place of publication not identified] : ALGONQUIN OF CHAPEL HILL, 2022.
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Moving and powerful. --Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap foam headstones had been $5 at Kmart, too good a deal to pass up. But when she opened the box, something fell out that she wasn't expecting: an SOS letter, handwritten in broken English by the prisoner who'd made and packaged the items. In Made in China, investigative journalist Amelia Pang pulls back the curtain on the labor camps that create the home goods we buy at Kmart, the fast fashion we buy at H&M, and a shocking number of other products besides. The book follows the life of Sun Yi, the Chinese engineer who wrote the note after finding himself a political prisoner, locked in a gulag for joining a forbidden meditation practice and campaigning for the freedom to do so. There he worked alongside petty criminals, civil rights activists, and anyone else the Chinese government decided to reeducate, carving foam gravestones and stitching clothing for more than fifteen hours a day. In chasing this story, journalist Amelia Pang has conducted extensive interviews with Sun Yi and the people who knew him. She also identified and interviewed others who endured similar horrors, and who inflicted them. And she traveled to China to follow falsified supply chains herself, tracking trucks from labor camps to warehouses. The story she uncovers is a call to action, urging the American consumer to ask more questions and demand more answers from the companies they patronize.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Pang, A. (2022). MADE IN CHINA: a prisoner, an sos letter, and the hidden cost of america's cheap goods . ALGONQUIN OF CHAPEL HILL.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pang, Amelia, 1991-. 2022. MADE IN CHINA: A Prisoner, an Sos Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods. ALGONQUIN OF CHAPEL HILL.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Pang, Amelia, 1991-. MADE IN CHINA: A Prisoner, an Sos Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods ALGONQUIN OF CHAPEL HILL, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Pang, Amelia. MADE IN CHINA: A Prisoner, an Sos Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods ALGONQUIN OF CHAPEL HILL, 2022.
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