China’s Concentration Camps (1/2)Laogai: The Chinese Gulag

Established by Mao Zedong in the 1940s, China’s concentration camp system has committed 50 million people, intellectuals, workers, students, peasants, to a life of hell over the last eighty years, with 20 million deaths. Not dissimilar to the Soviet Gulag, this cruel system of oppression was intended to bring about a ‘thought reform’ in the prisoners.

Survivors of the Laogai system, now living in exile, tell their story in this in depth documentary.

Director

Tania Rakhmanova

Production

YAMI2

Country

France

Year

2021

Duration

60 min

Available

From 22/03/2023 to 29/06/2025

Genre

Documentaries and Reportage

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