"A masterpiece." —The Washington Post "It was impossible. All of China was a prison in those days." Mao Zedong’s labor reform camps, known as the laogai, we

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In 1970 Congress created OSHA "to ensure that every man and woman in the nation had safe and healthy working conditions." This act had the side effect of limiti

'One of the greatest escape stories I?ve ever read? Mail on SundayAn ordinary man?s extraordinary escape from Mao?s brutal labour campsXu Hongci was an ordinary