Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System backdrop
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Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System
7.0
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1m
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2023
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Overview
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "Reform Through Labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.

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Camille Sannes poster
Camille Sannes
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ai Weiwei poster
Ai Weiwei
Self - Interviewee
Ren Wanding poster
Ren Wanding
Self - Interviewee
Wang Juntao poster
Wang Juntao
Self - Interviewee
Li Shuying poster
Li Shuying
Self - Interviewee
Wei Zidan poster
Wei Zidan
Self - Interviewee
Ping Hu poster
Ping Hu
Self - Interviewee
Wei Jingsheng poster
Wei Jingsheng
Self - Interviewee
Gulbahar Haitwaji poster
Gulbahar Haitwaji
Self - Interviewee
Xiao Qiang poster
Xiao Qiang
Self - Interviewee
Tong Yi poster
Tong Yi
Self - Interviewee
Teng Biao poster
Teng Biao
Self - Interviewee
Liao Yiwu poster
Liao Yiwu
Self - Interviewee
Cai Changguo poster
Cai Changguo
Self - Interviewee
Song Yongyi poster
Song Yongyi
Self - Interviewee
Xu Youyu poster
Xu Youyu
Self - Interviewee
Mai Gang poster
Mai Gang
Self - Interviewee
Feng Guojiang poster
Feng Guojiang
Self - Interviewee
Chen Pokong poster
Chen Pokong
Self - Interviewee
David Li poster
David Li
Self - Interviewee

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