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Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (June 2023) </div></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> Laogai (<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Chinese</a>: 劳改), short for laodong gaizao (劳动改造), which means reform through labor, is a <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Criminal_justice?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Criminal justice">criminal justice</a> system involving the use of <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Penal_labor?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Penal labor">penal labor</a> and <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Prison_farm?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Prison farm">prison farms</a> in the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of China">People's Republic of China</a> (PRC). Láogǎi is different from láojiào, or <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Re-education_through_labor?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Re-education through labor">re-education through labor</a>, which was the abolished administrative detention system for people who were not criminals but had committed <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Misdemeanor?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Misdemeanor">minor offenses</a>, and was intended to "reform offenders into law-abiding citizens".<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-HRW-2">[2]</a> Persons who were detained in the laojiao were detained in facilities that were separate from those which comprised the general prison system of the laogai. Both systems, however, were based on penal labor. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Laogai_Map.jpg?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Laogai_Map.jpg/220px-Laogai_Map.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="185" class="mw-file-element" srcset="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Laogai_Map.jpg/330px-Laogai_Map.jpg 1.5x,https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Laogai_Map.jpg/440px-Laogai_Map.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="840"></a> <figcaption> Locations of laogai camps in the 1990s, according to <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Harry_Wu?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Harry Wu">Harry Wu</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-1">[1]</a> </figcaption> </figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Standard_Chinese?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th> <td class="infobox-data">láogǎi</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de;">Full name</th> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Simplified_Chinese_characters?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Simplified Chinese characters">Simplified Chinese</a></th> <td class="infobox-data">劳动改造</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Traditional Chinese</a></th> <td class="infobox-data">勞動改造</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;">Literal meaning</th> <td class="infobox-data">reform through labor</td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"> <table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"> <tbody> <tr> <th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a 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0.4em;text-align:left;font-weight:bold;line-height:1.6em;font-size:105%}.mw-parser-output .sidebar-list-title-c{padding:0 0.4em;text-align:center;margin:0 3.3em}@media(max-width:640px){body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .sidebar{width:100%!important;clear:both;float:none!important;margin-left:0!important;margin-right:0!important}}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .sidebar a>img{max-width:none!important}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sidebar:not(.notheme) .sidebar-list-title,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sidebar:not(.notheme) .sidebar-title-with-pretitle{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sidebar:not(.notheme) .sidebar-title-with-pretitle a{color:var(--color-progressive)!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sidebar:not(.notheme) .sidebar-list-title,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sidebar:not(.notheme) .sidebar-title-with-pretitle{background:transparent!important}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sidebar:not(.notheme) .sidebar-title-with-pretitle a{color:var(--color-progressive)!important}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sidebar{display:none!important}}</style> Some writers have likened the laogai to <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Slavery_in_China?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Slavery in China">slavery</a>.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-AJE21Slave-3">[3]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-chapman-4">[4]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-5">[5]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"> <input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"> <div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#History">1 History</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Maoist_era">1.1 Maoist era</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Market_reform_era">1.2 Market reform era</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Modern_era">1.3 Modern era</a></li> </ul></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Conditions_in_Laogai_camps">2 Conditions in Laogai camps</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Clothing">2.1 Clothing</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Food">2.2 Food</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Living_quarters_and_sanitation">2.3 Living quarters and sanitation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Disease_and_pests">2.4 Disease and pests</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#%22Reform_through_labor%22">2.5 "Reform through labor"</a></li> </ul></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Estimated_number_of_deaths">3 Estimated number of deaths</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#References">4 References</a></li> </ul> </div> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"> <h2 id="History">History</h2> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: History" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Maoist_era">Maoist era</h3> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=2&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Maoist era" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> During the 1950s and 1960s, Chinese prisons, which were similar to organized factories, contained large numbers of people who were considered too critical of the government or "<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Counter-revolutionary?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Counter-revolutionary">counter-revolutionaries</a>". However, many people arrested for political or religious reasons were released in the late 1970s at the start of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Deng Xiaoping">Deng Xiaoping</a> reforms (known as <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Reform_and_opening?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Reform and opening">reform and opening</a>). In the 21st century, critics have said that Chinese prisons produce products for sale in foreign countries, with the profits going to the PRC government.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-6">[6]</a> Products include everything from <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Green_tea?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Green tea">green tea</a> to industrial engines to <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Coal_in_China?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Coal in China">coal</a> dug from <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mining?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Mining">mines</a>.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-7">[7]</a> According to James D. Seymour and <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Richard_C._Anderson?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Richard C. Anderson">Richard Anderson</a>, who both teach at Chinese schools,<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-8">[8]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-9">[9]</a> the products made in laogai camps comprise an insignificant amount of <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mainland_China?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Mainland China">mainland China</a>'s export output and gross domestic product.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-washington_times-10">[10]</a> They argue that the use of prison labor for manufacturing is not in itself a violation of human rights, and that most prisoners in Chinese prisons are serving time for what are generally regarded as crimes in <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Western_world?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Western world">the West</a>. The West's criticism of the laogai is based not only on the export of products made by forced labor, but also on the claims of detainees <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Prisoner_of_conscience?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Prisoner of conscience">being held for political or religious violations</a>, such as leadership of unregistered <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Chinese_House_Churches?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese House Churches">Chinese House Churches</a>.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-11">[11]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Market_reform_era">Market reform era</h3> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=3&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Market reform era" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Structural changes following the introduction of market reforms have reduced <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Tax_revenue?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Tax revenue">tax revenue</a> to local governments, increasing pressure for local governments to supplement their income from elsewhere. At the same time, prisoners usually do not make a good <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Workforce?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Workforce">workforce</a>. The products manufactured by prison labor in China are of low quality and have become unsalable on the open market in competition with products made by non-imprisoned paid labor.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-12">[12]</a> In 1994 the laogai camps were renamed "prisons".<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-13">[13]</a> However, Chinese criminal law still stipulates that prisoners able to work shall "accept education and reform through labor".<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-14">[14]</a> The existence of an extensive network of forced-labor camps producing consumer goods for export to Europe and the United States became classified.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-AJE21Slave-3">[3]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-chongqing-15">[15]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-16">[16]</a> Publication of information about China's prison system by <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Al_Jazeera_English?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Al Jazeera English">Al Jazeera English</a> resulted in its expulsion from China on May 7, 2012.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-NYTAJE-17">[17]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-18">[18]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Modern_era">Modern era</h3> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=4&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Modern era" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In 2003, the word "laogai" entered the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a>. It entered the German <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Duden?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Duden">Duden</a> in 2005,<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-LRF25-19">[19]</a> and French and Italian dictionaries in 2006.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-20">[20]</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Harry_Wu?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Harry Wu">Harry Wu</a> has written books, including Troublemaker and Laogai, that describe the system from the 19(?)0s to the 1990s. Wu spent 19 years, from 1960 to 1979, as a prisoner in these camps, for having criticized the government while he was a young college student.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-21">[21]</a> After almost starving to death in the camps, he eventually moved to the United States as a visiting scholar in 1985. In 1992, Wu created the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai_Research_Foundation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Laogai Research Foundation">Laogai Research Foundation</a>, a human rights <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/NGO?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="NGO">NGO</a> located in Washington, DC. In 2008, Wu opened the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai_Museum?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Laogai Museum">Laogai Museum</a> in Washington, D.C., calling it the first ever United States museum to directly address human rights in China.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-washington_times-10">[10]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-taipei_times-22">[22]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-press_release-23">[23]</a> In 2008, the Laogai Research Foundation estimated that approximately 1,045 laogai facilities were operating in China, and contained an estimated 500,000 to 2 million detainees.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-LRF6-24">[24]</a> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"> <h2 id="Conditions_in_Laogai_camps">Conditions in Laogai camps</h2> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=5&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Conditions in Laogai camps" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Clothing">Clothing</h3> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=6&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Clothing" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Unlike <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Re-education_through_labor?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Re-education through labor">Laojiao</a> (re-education through labor) inmates, Laogai criminals are issued clothing. Depending on the locale and its economic situation, the quality of clothing can vary significantly. Some prisoners may receive black or grey while others wear dark red or blue. Also depending on location, the clothing is available in different thicknesses. Commonly stamped on the uniforms are the Chinese characters for fan and lao gai meaning "criminal" and "reform through labor," respectively.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-25">[25]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> Also issued to the prisoners are a pair of shoes made of rubber or plastic.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> These minimums do not meet the needs of the prisoners, who must purchase underclothes, socks, hats, and jackets with their monthly earnings of 2.5–3 <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Chinese_yuan?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese yuan">yuan</a> (US$0.37–US$0.44 as of April 11, 2009).<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> Jackets were rare in the Mao era and were commonly made from patches of old blankets rather than from original cloth. Washing clothes was also rare, but clothing supplies in prisons have improved since the mid-Deng-Jiang Era.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Food">Food</h3> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=7&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Food" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Food distribution has varied much through time, similar to its variation across the "over 1,155 documented laogai" camps.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-chapman-4">[4]</a> One camp near Beijing distributes between 13.5 and 22.5 kg of food per person per month. This is about average. The food consists of sorghum and corn, which are ground into flour and made into bread or gruel. The prisoners of the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Beijing?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Beijing">Beijing</a> camp also receive 3 ounces of cooking oil per month. Every 2 weeks, the prisoners receive "a special meal of pork broth soup and white-flour steamed buns". Important Chinese holidays, such as New Year's, National Day, and the Spring Festival, are celebrated with meat dumplings, an exception in an otherwise meatless diet.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> Food is distributed by one person per squad, which consists of about 10 people. This prisoner, called the zhiban or "duty prisoner," delivers the food to the rest of his group in large bowls on a cart. This often involves pushing the cart a great distance to the place where the others are working.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> Each day prisoners receive gruel, bread, and a watery <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Vegetable_soup?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Vegetable soup">vegetable soup</a> made from the cheapest vegetables available. Some camps have reported two meals a day, while others allow three.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> Food is rationed according to rank and productive output, which is believed to provide motivation to work. During the Mao era, food in prisons was very scarce, not only because of a nationwide <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Famine?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Famine">famine</a> during the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Great Leap Forward">Great Leap Forward</a> (1959–1962), but also because of the harsher rules[<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>]. Since little food was available, prisoners would scavenge anything they came across while working. Cases were documented of prisoners eating "field mice, crickets, locusts, toads, grapevine worms, grasshoppers, insect larvae and eggs, and venomous snakes".<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> Also, many inmates would steal produce from the fields they worked on, smuggling vegetables back to their barracks. In <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jiabiangou?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jiabiangou">Jiabiangou</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Gansu?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Gansu">Gansu</a>, around 2,500 out of 3,000 prisoners died of starvation between 1960 and 1962, with some survivors resorting to <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Human_cannibalism?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Human cannibalism">cannibalism</a>.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-french2009-28">[28]</a> Nutrition in the camps was a big problem, especially during the early 1950s through the 1960s, in the early years of the PRC (People's Republic of China). Before the CCP (<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a>) took control, hunger was rarely used to control prisoners.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> Early leaders of the CCP realized the power of withholding food from rebellious prisoners and, until recently, this practice was very common. Since the early 1990s, some camps in the coastal regions of Eastern China have improved the quality and amount of food.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Living_quarters_and_sanitation">Living quarters and sanitation</h3> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=8&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Living quarters and sanitation" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The living quarters, commonly referred to as barracks in most Laogai literature, were relatively primitive. Most had floors made of cement or wood, but some were of only straw and/or earth. The latrine was a bucket, and no furniture was provided. The prisoners slept on the floor in a space 30 cm wide,<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> with 10 people per room.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> New prisoners were forced to sleep nearest to the latrine while more senior ones slept near the opposite wall.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> Baths and showers were very rare and often not mentioned at all in memoirs. The only form of washing was the use of a water basin, which was only slightly less rare. This was ineffective because the entire squad used the same water. Basic essentials, such as a toothbrush and toothpaste, toilet paper, soap, and towels were not provided; prisoners had to spend their wages to acquire them.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> Prisoners were known to have spread manure, both human and animal, and been required to eat immediately without being able to wash their hands.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> The sleeping quarters were surrounded on all sides by a wall. This wall is about 20 feet high and topped with electrical fencing. There were also sentry towers on each corner. Outside this wall was 40 feet of empty space, followed by another wall, similar to the first but larger.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Disease_and_pests">Disease and pests</h3> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=9&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Disease and pests" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The Laogai camps were infested with many types of pests. <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Bed_bug?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Bed bug">Bed bugs</a> were so numerous that at night they often moved in swarms. This behavior earned them the Laogai nickname of tanks or "tanke".<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> They sucked the blood of the prisoners, leaving little red welts all over their bodies. These <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wheal_response?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wheal response">welts</a> itched, and severe cases led to inmates scratching their skin raw, leading to dangerous infections. Another common pest was <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Lice?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Lice">lice</a>; some prisoners were known to eat them to supplement their meager diet. No <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Insecticide?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Insecticide">insecticide</a> or pesticides were used in the camps. The prisoner Zhang Xianliang wrote that "the parasites on a single inmate's underpants would be as numerous as the words on the front page of a newspaper". He noted <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Flea?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Flea">fleas</a> would be so numerous that they would "turn his quilt purplish black with their droppings".<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Roundworms?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Roundworms">Roundworms</a> were also a common threat to the prisoners' health, especially in laogai farms, where human <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Excrement?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Excrement">excrement</a> was used as <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Fertilizer?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Fertilizer">fertilizer</a>.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> Along with a poor diet came many diet-related diseases: <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Beriberi?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Beriberi">beriberi</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Edema?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edema">edema</a>, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Scurvy?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Scurvy">scurvy</a>, and <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Pellagra?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Pellagra">pellagra</a> were the most common, due to lack of vitamins.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> Other health problems caused by the lack of healthy food included severe <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Diarrhea?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Diarrhea">diarrhea</a> or <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Constipation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Constipation">constipation</a> from the lack of oil and fiber. These two were often left untreated and, added to the continuous strain of 12 hours of manual labor, weakened the immune system. Eventually, death followed many of these conditions.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> Two diseases rampant among the populations of these camps were <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Tuberculosis?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a> and <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Hepatitis?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Hepatitis">hepatitis</a>. Highly contagious, these were also often left untreated until it was too late. Each morning, the cadre of the camp decided who was sick enough to stay in the barracks and miss the day of work. Many prisoners were forced to work when they were ill.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> Mental illness used to be very common during the Mao era, when prisoners had to spend 2 hours each evening being indoctrinated. The <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Brainwashing?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Brainwashing">brainwashing</a> that occurred over the amount of time people were imprisoned could be so intense that they were driven to insanity and, in many cases, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Suicide?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Suicide">suicide</a>.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id=""Reform_through_labor"">"Reform through labor"</h3> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=10&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: "Reform through labor"" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Forced labor defines Laogai prison camps, according to <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Harry_Wu?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Harry Wu">Harry Wu</a>, who has characterized the system as: <blockquote> Prisoners are roused from bed at 5:30 a.m., and at 6:00 a.m. the zhiban from the kitchen wheels in a cart with tubs of corn gruel and cornbread ... at 7:00 a.m. the company public security cadre (captain) comes in, gathers all the prisoners together, and authorizes any sick prisoners to remain in the barracks. Once at the worksite, the captain delegates production responsibilities ... At lunchtime the zhiban arrives pulling a handcart with a large tub of vegetable soup, two hunks of cornbread for each prisoner, and a large tube of drinking water ... after about 30 minutes, work is resumed until the company chief announces quitting time in the evening. Generally the prisoners return to the barracks at about 6:30 p.m. Upon return it is once again a dinner of cornbread, corn gruel, and vegetable soup. At 7:30 p.m., the 2-hour study period begins... At 9:30 p.m., no matter what the weather, all prisoners gather together outside the barracks for roll call and a speech from the captain. At around 10:00 p.m., everyone goes to bed. During the night no lights are allowed and no one is allowed to move about. One must remain in one's assigned sleeping place and wait until 5:30 a.m. the next morning before getting up, when the whole cycle begins again.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wu-27">[27]</a> </blockquote> Quota filling was a big part of the inmates' lives in Laogai camps. Undershooting or overshooting the target productivity governs their quality of life. Not making the number may result in solitary confinement or loss of food privileges. Generally, food rations are cut by 10–20% if a worker fails to meet the standard. Some prisoners excel and are able to do more than what is required of them. They sometimes receive extra or better quality food. It has been argued that this extra food is not worth the extra calories burned to be more productive, so many prisoners choose to do the minimum with minimum effort, thereby saving as much energy as possible.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> Working conditions in Laogai camps are substandard:[<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <blockquote> Investigators from the Laogai Research Foundation have confirmed sites where prisoners mine asbestos and other toxic chemicals with no protective gear, work with batteries and battery acid with no protection for their hands, tan hides while standing naked in vats filled 3-feet deep with chemicals used for the softening of animal skins, and work in improperly run mining facilities where explosions and other accidents are a common occurrence.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-chapman-4">[4]</a> </blockquote> Career preparation has historically been used to justify forced labor prison systems around the world. In China, although this argument was used, career preparation was minimal until recently. Following release, the skills acquired within the Laogai prison (i.e. ditch-digging or manure-spreading) do not often lead to desirable employment. Inmates who entered the Laogai system with marketable skills were often assigned jobs utilizing these skills within the prison complex. Doctors, for example, were doctors within the Laogai camp often receiving preferential treatment, larger amounts of food, similar to the cadre, and a bed. "Inmates rarely leave with any new skills unless the training fits the camp's enterprising needs."<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> More recently however, programs have been introduced to train prisoners in useful trades.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-williams-26">[26]</a> While there are many types of Laogai complexes, most enterprises are farms, mines, or factories. There are, according to the Chinese government, "approximately 200 different kinds of Laogai products that are exported to international markets".<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-chapman-4">[4]</a> "A quarter of China's tea is produced in Laogai camps; 60 percent of China's rubber-vulcanizing chemicals are produced in a single Laogai camp in Shengyang ... one of the largest steel-pipe factories in the country is a Laogai camp ... "<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-chapman-4">[4]</a> One camp alone, Ziangride, harvests more than 22,000 metric tons of grain every year.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-Johnson-29">[29]</a> Dulan County prisoners have planted over 400,000 trees.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-Johnson-29">[29]</a> The conditions in these camps are considered extremely harsh by most of the world's cultures. However, the Chinese government considers Laogai to be effective in controlling prisoners and furthering China's economy. According to Mao Zedong, "The Laogai facilities are one of the violent component parts of the state machine. Laogai facilities of all levels are established as tools representing the interests of the proletariat and the people's masses and exercising dictatorship over a minority of hostile elements originating from exploiter classes."<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-gulag-30">[30]</a> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"> <h2 id="Estimated_number_of_deaths">Estimated number of deaths</h2> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Laogai&action=edit&section=11&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Estimated number of deaths" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> The estimated number of deaths in laogai varies substantially among authors on the subject: <ul> <li>In 1997, human rights activist and <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai_Research_Foundation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Laogai Research Foundation">Laogai Research Foundation</a> creator <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Harry_Wu?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Harry Wu">Harry Wu</a> put the death toll from 1949 to 1997 at 15 million.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-wudead-31">[31]</a></li> <li>In 1991, political scientist <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Rudolph_Rummel?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolph Rummel">Rudolph Rummel</a> puts the number of forced labor "<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Democide?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Democide">democides</a>" at 15,720,000, excluding "all those collectivized, ill-fed and clothed peasants who would be worked to death in the fields".<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-rummels-32">[32]</a></li> <li>In 1997, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jean-Louis_Margolin?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jean-Louis Margolin">Jean-Louis Margolin</a> estimated in <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="The Black Book of Communism">The Black Book of Communism</a> that 20 million deaths resulted from high mortality rates in laogai.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-Courtois_et.al_1999-33">[33]</a> Margolin's calculation assume a yearly imprisoned population of 10 million people and a yearly mortality rate of 5%. If camps operated from roughly 1949 to 1980, that yields about 15.5 million dead.</li> <li>In 2005, linguist <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jung_Chang?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jung Chang">Jung Chang</a> and historian <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jon_Halliday?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jon Halliday">Jon Halliday</a> estimated in <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mao:_The_Unknown_Story?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Mao: The Unknown Story">Mao: The Unknown Story</a> that deaths in prisons and labor camps "could well amount to 27 million" during Mao's rule.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-ChangHalliday2005-34">[34]</a> In 2005, Jin Xiaoding negatively described Chang and Halliday's logic as a "magic formula" that simply multiplies 27 (years of Mao's rule) by 10 million (assumed camp population) by 10% (assumed yearly mortality rate) to obtain 27 million dead, with no discussion of responsibility or other data.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-35">[35]</a> Charlie Hore called this method "guessing".<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-36">[36]</a> Chang and Halliday say that inmates were subjected to back-breaking labor in the most hostile wastelands, and that executions and suicides by any means (like diving into a wheat chopper) were commonplace.<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_note-ChangHalliday2005-34">[34]</a></li> </ul> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"> <h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" 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Retrieved May 8, 2012.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=China+Expels+Al+Jazeera+Channel&rft.date=2012-05-07&rft.au=Michael+Wines&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2012%2F05%2F08%2Fworld%2Fasia%2Fchina-expels-al-jazeera-english-language-channel.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> <li id="cite_note-18"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-18">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/05/201257195136608563.html">"Al Jazeera English to close China bureau"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508103635/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/05/201257195136608563.html">Archived</a> May 8, 2012, at the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wayback_Machine?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Al Jazeera English May 8, 2012</li> <li id="cite_note-LRF25-19"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-LRF25_19-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527202338/http://www.laogai.org/news2/book/handbook05-06.pdf">"Laogai Handbook"</a> (PDF). The Laogai Research Foundation. 2006. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.laogai.org/news2/book/handbook05-06.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on May 27, 2008. Retrieved October 18, 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Laogai+Handbook&rft.pub=The+Laogai+Research+Foundation&rft.date=2006&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laogai.org%2Fnews2%2Fbook%2Fhandbook05-06.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"> p. 25–6.</li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-20">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREF吴弘达_(Harry_Wu)2007" class="citation web cs1">吴弘达 (<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Harry_Wu?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Harry Wu">Harry Wu</a>) (January 19, 2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213173117/http://www.cicus.org/info/ArtShow.asp?ID%3D42171">"祝贺LAOGAI（劳改）进入意大利语词典"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.cicus.org/info/ArtShow.asp?ID%3D42171">the original</a> on February 13, 2012. Retrieved December 12, 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%E7%A5%9D%E8%B4%BALAOGAI%EF%BC%88%E5%8A%B3%E6%94%B9%EF%BC%89%E8%BF%9B%E5%85%A5%E6%84%8F%E5%A4%A7%E5%88%A9%E8%AF%AD%E8%AF%8D%E5%85%B8&rft.date=2007-01-19&rft.au=%E5%90%B4%E5%BC%98%E8%BE%BE+%28Harry+Wu%29&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cicus.org%2Finfo%2FArtShow.asp%3FID%3D42171&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"> English summary: "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.cicus.org/info_Eng/artshow.asp?ID%3D7138">Congratulations! Laogai entered Italian dictionary!</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213173126/http://www.cicus.org/info_Eng/artshow.asp?ID%3D7138">Archived</a> February 13, 2012, at the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wayback_Machine?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>"</li> <li id="cite_note-21"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-21">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610072617/http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2003/cr_harry_wu.html">"Exposing Laogai: Harry Wu Speaks At AIM Luncheon"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2003/cr_harry_wu.html">the original</a> on June 10, 2007. Retrieved August 20, 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Exposing+Laogai%3A+Harry+Wu+Speaks+At+AIM+Luncheon&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.org%2Fcampus_reports%2F2003%2Fcr_harry_wu.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> <li id="cite_note-taipei_times-22"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-taipei_times_22-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAgence_France-Presse2008" class="citation news cs1"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Agence_France-Presse?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Agence France-Presse">Agence France-Presse</a> (November 10, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/11/10/2003428244">"US museum displays China's 'laogai'"</a>. The Taipei Times. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20081117112908/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/11/10/2003428244">Archived</a> from the original on November 17, 2008. Retrieved December 12, 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Taipei+Times&rft.atitle=US+museum+displays+China%27s+%27laogai%27&rft.date=2008-11-10&rft.au=Agence+France-Presse&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.taipeitimes.com%2FNews%2Fworld%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2F10%2F2003428244&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> <li id="cite_note-press_release-23"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-press_release_23-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122061900/http://laogai.org/news/newsdetail.php?id%3D3216">"Press Release: Laogai Museum Now Open to the Public"</a>. Laogai Research Foundation. November 13, 2008. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.laogai.org/news/newsdetail.php?id%3D3216">the original</a> on January 22, 2009. Retrieved December 12, 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Press+Release%3A+Laogai+Museum+Now+Open+to+the+Public&rft.pub=Laogai+Research+Foundation&rft.date=2008-11-13&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laogai.org%2Fnews%2Fnewsdetail.php%3Fid%3D3216&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> <li id="cite_note-LRF6-24"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-LRF6_24-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527202338/http://www.laogai.org/news2/book/handbook05-06.pdf">"Laogai Handbook"</a> (PDF). The Laogai Research Foundation. 2006. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.laogai.org/news2/book/handbook05-06.pdf">the original</a> (PDF) on May 27, 2008. Retrieved October 18, 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Laogai+Handbook&rft.pub=The+Laogai+Research+Foundation&rft.date=2006&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laogai.org%2Fnews2%2Fbook%2Fhandbook05-06.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"> p. 6.</li> <li id="cite_note-25"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-25">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilliamsWu2004" class="citation book cs1">Williams, Philip F.; Wu, Yenna (2004). The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage. Berkeley: University of California Press. <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-520-22779-4?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:BookSources/0-520-22779-4"><bdi>0-520-22779-4</bdi></a>. <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/53369503">53369503</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Great+Wall+of+Confinement%3A+The+Chinese+Prison+Camp+through+Contemporary+Fiction+and+Reportage&rft.place=Berkeley&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F53369503&rft.isbn=0-520-22779-4&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=Philip+F.&rft.au=Wu%2C+Yenna&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> <li id="cite_note-williams-26">^ <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-0">a</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-1">b</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-2">c</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-3">d</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-4">e</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-5">f</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-6">g</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-7">h</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-8">i</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-9">j</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-10">k</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-11">l</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-12">m</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-13">n</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-14">o</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-15">p</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-16">q</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-williams_26-17">r</a> Williams, Philip F., and Yenna Wu. The Great Wall of Confinement: The Chinese Prison Camp Through Contemporary Fiction and Reportage. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2004. Print.</li> <li id="cite_note-wu-27">^ <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-0">a</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-1">b</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-2">c</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-3">d</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-4">e</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-5">f</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-6">g</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-7">h</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-8">i</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-9">j</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wu_27-10">k</a> Wu, Hongda Harry. Laogai – The Chinese Gulag. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, Inc., 1992. Print.</li> <li id="cite_note-french2009-28"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-french2009_28-0">^</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/books/25french.html">Howard W. French, "Survivors' Stories From China"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301204421/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/books/25french.html">Archived</a> March 1, 2017, at the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wayback_Machine?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, New York Times, August 25, 2009</li> <li id="cite_note-Johnson-29">^ <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-Johnson_29-0">a</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-Johnson_29-1">b</a> By Ian Johnson. "China's Prison Camps Turn to Commerce --- Forced Labor Helps Settle Unexploited Regions. " Wall Street Journal, Aug. 14, 1998, Eastern edition: A13. ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest.</li> <li id="cite_note-gulag-30"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-gulag_30-0">^</a> Wu, Harry, "The Other Gulag", National Review, 4/5/1999, Vol. 51, Issue 6</li> <li id="cite_note-wudead-31"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-wudead_31-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAikman1997" class="citation web cs1">Aikman, David (September 29, 1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20050426222819/http://www.laogai.org/comment/arch.htm">"The Laogai Archipelago"</a>. <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="The Weekly Standard">The Weekly Standard</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.laogai.org/comment/arch.htm">the original</a> on April 26, 2005. <q>"There are, according to Wu, an estimated 1,100 of these institutions in which prisoners are compelled to work under conditions, essentially, of slave labor. He estimates that over five decades about 50 million Chinese have been through the Laogai. Today Wu estimates the Laogai population at 6-8 million. [.....] Many of them simply perished in the camps, part of a Laogai death toll that by Wu's calculations may have reached 15 million since 1949. Others survived, but remained in legal limbo for the rest of their lives.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Laogai+Archipelago&rft.pub=The+Weekly+Standard&rft.date=1997-09-29&rft.aulast=Aikman&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.laogai.org%2Fcomment%2Farch.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> <li id="cite_note-rummels-32"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-rummels_32-0">^</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Rudolph_Rummel?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Rudolph Rummel">Rummel, R. J.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE2.HTM">China’s Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724104631/http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE2.HTM">Archived</a> July 24, 2019, at the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wayback_Machine?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Transaction_Publishers?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Transaction Publishers">Transaction Publishers</a>, 1991. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-88738-417-X?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:BookSources/0-88738-417-X">0-88738-417-X</a> pp. 214–215</li> <li id="cite_note-Courtois_et.al_1999-33"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-Courtois_et.al_1999_33-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWerthPannéPaczkowskiBartosek1999" class="citation book cs1"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Nicolas_Werth?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Nicolas Werth">Werth, Nicolas</a>; <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jean-Louis_Pann%C3%A9?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jean-Louis Panné">Panné, Jean-Louis</a>; <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Andrzej_Paczkowski?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Andrzej Paczkowski">Paczkowski, Andrzej</a>; <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Karel_Bartosek?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Karel Bartosek">Bartosek, Karel</a>; <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jean-Louis_Margolin?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jean-Louis Margolin">Margolin, Jean-Louis</a> (October 1999). <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_Courtois?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Stéphane Courtois">Courtois, Stéphane</a> (ed.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://books.google.com/books?id%3DH1jsgYCoRioC">The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression</a>. <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Harvard_University_Press?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Harvard University Press">Harvard University Press</a>. p. 498. <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-674-07608-2?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-674-07608-2"><bdi>978-0-674-07608-2</bdi></a>. <q>The laogai was a sort of nonplace, a black hole where the light of Maoism blinded tens of millions of people. As a rough indication, Harry Wu calculates that up to the mid-1980s some 50 million people passed through the system.115 Many died there. According to estimates by Jean-Luc Domenach, there were roughly 10 million detainees each year, which equals 1—2 percent of the overall population. Given that the mortality rate was around 5 percent, some 20 million Chinese must have died during imprisonment, including approximately 4 million in 1959-1962 during the famine caused by the Great Leap Forward (although a return to normal rations took place only in 1964).116 Along with Jean Pasqualini's extraordinary revelations, two recent studies (those of Wu and Domenach) now yield a better general picture of the least-known of the century's three great concentration-camp systems. [....] 115. Wu, Laogai, p. 38. 116. Domenach, Chine, p. 242; Pasqualini, Prisoner of Mao, p. 318.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Black+Book+of+Communism%3A+Crimes%2C+Terror%2C+Repression&rft.pages=498&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1999-10&rft.isbn=978-0-674-07608-2&rft.aulast=Werth&rft.aufirst=Nicolas&rft.au=Pann%C3%A9%2C+Jean-Louis&rft.au=Paczkowski%2C+Andrzej&rft.au=Bartosek%2C+Karel&rft.au=Margolin%2C+Jean-Louis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DH1jsgYCoRioC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> <li id="cite_note-ChangHalliday2005-34">^ <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-ChangHalliday2005_34-0">a</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-ChangHalliday2005_34-1">b</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChangHalliday2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jung_Chang?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jung Chang">Chang, Jung</a>; <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Jon_Halliday?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Jon Halliday">Halliday, Jon</a> (2005). <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Mao:_The_Unknown_Story?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Mao: The Unknown Story">Mao: The Unknown Story</a>. London: Jonathan Cape. p. 338. <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0224071260?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:BookSources/978-0224071260"><bdi>978-0224071260</bdi></a>. <q>Hidden away in these camps, the physically weaker, and the spiritually stronger, were worked to death. Many inmates were executed, while others committed suicide by any means, like diving into a wheat-chopper. In all, during his rule, the number who died in prisons and labour camps could well amount to 27 million.* [....] By the general estimate China's prison and labor camp population was roughly 10 million in any one year under Mao. Descriptions of camp life by inmates, which point to high mortality rates, indicate a probable annual death rate of at least 10 per cent.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mao%3A+The+Unknown+Story&rft.place=London&rft.pages=338&rft.pub=Jonathan+Cape&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=978-0224071260&rft.aulast=Chang&rft.aufirst=Jung&rft.au=Halliday%2C+Jon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> <li id="cite_note-35"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-35">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBentonChun2010" class="citation book cs1">Benton, Gregor; Chun, Lin, eds. (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://www.routledge.com/Was-Mao-Really-a-Monster-The-Academic-Response-to-Chang-and-Hallidays/Benton-Chun/p/book/9780415493307">Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story"</a> (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 149. <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780415493307?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:BookSources/9780415493307"><bdi>9780415493307</bdi></a>. <q>Twenty-seven million deaths in prisons and labour camps Jung Chang's second large group of Mao's peacetime victims is those who died in Chinese government custody. The number is actually produced by magic formula. Mao's responsibility is not discussed, merely assumed. During Mao's 27 years of rule, 'the number who died in prisons and labour camps could well amount to 27 million' (p. 338). The proof: 'China's prison and labour camp population was roughly 10 million in any one year under Mao. Descriptions of camp life by inmates, which point to high mortality rates, indicate a probable annual death rate of at least 10 per cent' (p. 338 fn.). So 10m × 10% × 27 = 27 million. Jung Chang accuses Mao of killing x = a × b × c number of people, where a = 'China's prison and labour camp population', b = 'annual death rate', and c = the years of his rule. She does not explain why a = 10 million. Her justification of b = 10 per cent is based on 'descriptions of camp life by inmates'. If we applied this magic formula to Deng Xiao-ping's reign from 1978 to 1989, we get the figure of 12 million deaths, and 14 million for his successor Jiang Ze-min (1990–2003). Jung Chang does not show why Mao was responsible. Apparently she simply blames Mao for every Chinese death of whatever kind.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Was+Mao+Really+a+Monster%3F%3A+The+Academic+Response+to+Chang+and+Halliday%27s+%22Mao%3A+The+Unknown+Story%22&rft.pages=149&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=9780415493307&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.routledge.com%2FWas-Mao-Really-a-Monster-The-Academic-Response-to-Chang-and-Hallidays%2FBenton-Chun%2Fp%2Fbook%2F9780415493307&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> <li id="cite_note-36"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Laogai?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#cite_ref-36">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHore2006" class="citation journal cs1">Hore, Charlie (Spring 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/hore/2006/xx/mao.html">"Mao out of context"</a>. International Socialism. 2: 110 – via <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Marxist_Internet_Archive?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Marxist Internet Archive">Marxist Internet Archive</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=International+Socialism&rft.atitle=Mao+out+of+context&rft.ssn=spring&rft.volume=2&rft.pages=110&rft.date=2006&rft.aulast=Hore&rft.aufirst=Charlie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.marxists.org%2Fhistory%2Fetol%2Fwriters%2Fhore%2F2006%2Fxx%2Fmao.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALaogai" class="Z3988"></li> </ol> </div> <div class="navbox-styles"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid 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