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How I survived a Chinese "reeducation" camp : a Uyghur woman's story / Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Rozenn Morgat ; translated by Edward Gauvin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York : Seven Stories Press, [2022]Description: 235 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781644211489
  • 1644211483
Other title:
  • How I survived a Chinese "re-education" camp
  • Uyghur woman's story
Uniform titles:
  • Rescapée du goulag chinois. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Preface -- August 28, 2016 (Paris) -- November 19, 2016 (Paris-Boulogne) -- January 29, 2017 (Karamay County Jail) -- January 30, 2017 (Karamay County Jail) -- April 15, 2017 (Karamay County Jail) -- June 5, 2017 (Karamay County Jail) -- June 10, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- June 20, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- July 14, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- September 3, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- November 20, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- Late 2017 to early 2018 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- Spring 2018 -- November 5, 2018 (Somewhere in Northern Xinjiang) -- November 23, 2018 (Somewhere in Northern Xinjiang) -- February 19, 2019 (Paris) -- March 3, 2019 (Karamay) -- March 11, 2019 (Karamay) March 12, 2019 -- March 15, 2019 (Karamay) -- April 2, 2019 (Karamay) April 6, 2019 -- April 12, 2019 (Karamay) -- June 6, 2019 (Karamay) -- June 22, 2019 (Karamay) -- August 13, 2019 (Ghulja) -- August 21, 2019 (Paris) -- Afterword: January 2021.
Summary: "Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of her family and the French foreign ministry she was freed and was able to return to France where she currently resides"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Biography HAITIWAJ G. H153 Available 33111010658850
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography HAITIWAJ G. H153 Available 33111010839104
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The first memoir about the "reeducation" camps by a Uyghur woman.

"I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality."
-- Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match

Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs have been deported from their homes in the Xinjiang region of China to "reeducation camps." The brutal repression of the Uyghurs, a Turkish-speaking Muslim ethnic group, has been denounced as genocide, and reported widely in media around the world. The Xinjiang Papers, revealed by the New York Times in 2019, expose the brutal repression of the Uyghur ethnicity by means of forced mass detention­--the biggest since the time of Mao.

Her name is Gulbahar Haitiwaji and she is the first Uyghur woman to write a memoir about the 'reeducation' camps. For three years Haitiwaji endured hundreds of hours of interrogations, torture, hunger, police violence, brainwashing, forced sterilization, freezing cold, and nights under blinding neon light in her prison cell.

These camps are to China what the Gulags were to the USSR. The Chinese government denies that they are concentration camps, seeking to legitimize their existence in the name of the "total fight against Islamic terrorism, infiltration and separatism," and calls them "schools." But none of this is true. Gulbahar only escaped thanks to the relentless efforts of her daughter. Her courageous memoir is a terrifying portrait of the atrocities she endured in the Chinese gulag and how the treatment of the Uyghurs at the hands of the Chinese government is just the latest example of their oppression of independent minorities within Chinese borders.

The Xinjiang region where the Uyghurs live is where the Chinese government wishes there to be a new "silk route," connecting Asia to Europe, considered to be the most important political project of president Xi Jinping.

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of her family and the French foreign ministry she was freed and was able to return to France where she currently resides"-- Provided by publisher.

Translated from the French.

Preface -- August 28, 2016 (Paris) -- November 19, 2016 (Paris-Boulogne) -- January 29, 2017 (Karamay County Jail) -- January 30, 2017 (Karamay County Jail) -- April 15, 2017 (Karamay County Jail) -- June 5, 2017 (Karamay County Jail) -- June 10, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- June 20, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- July 14, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- September 3, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- November 20, 2017 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- Late 2017 to early 2018 (Baijiantan, Karamay) -- Spring 2018 -- November 5, 2018 (Somewhere in Northern Xinjiang) -- November 23, 2018 (Somewhere in Northern Xinjiang) -- February 19, 2019 (Paris) -- March 3, 2019 (Karamay) -- March 11, 2019 (Karamay) March 12, 2019 -- March 15, 2019 (Karamay) -- April 2, 2019 (Karamay) April 6, 2019 -- April 12, 2019 (Karamay) -- June 6, 2019 (Karamay) -- June 22, 2019 (Karamay) -- August 13, 2019 (Ghulja) -- August 21, 2019 (Paris) -- Afterword: January 2021.

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