How I Survived a Chinese 'Re-education' Camp

A Uyghur Woman's Story

Author: Gulbahar Haitiwaji
Secondary Author: Rozenn Morgat
ISBN: 9781644211489

''An indispensable account'' - Sunday Times ''Moving and devastating'' - The Literary Review ''An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait'' - Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars) FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA''A ''RE-EDUCATION'' CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN Since 2017, one million Uyghurs have been seized by the Chinese authorities and sent to ''re-education'' camps, in what the US Government and human rights groups describe as a genocide. Few have made it out to the West. One is Gulbahar Haitiwaji. For three years, she endured hundreds of hours of interrogations, freezing cold, forced sterilisation, and a programme of de-personalisation meant to destroy her free will and her memories. This intimate account reveals the long-suppressed truth about China''s gulag. It tells the story of a woman confronted by an all-powerful state bent on crushing her spirit - and her battle for freedom and dignity. Extract ''In the camps, the ''re-education'' process applies the same remorseless

Publisher: Canbury Press Limited
Publish Date: 2022-02-03

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Memoir)