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Tables of Contents for Eighteen Layers of Hell
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
2
Harry Wu
Preface
ix
2
Introduction
xi
Chapter one Beneath the Iron Crust: China's Laogai System
1
12
Chapter two The Death of the Father: George and John
13
16
Chapter three No Day or Night: The Experience of Survival
29
11
Chapter four The State as Psychopath: Torture in Chinese Prisons
40
13
Chapter five Loneliness Is the Scalpel: Liu Shanqing
53
20
Chapter six The Wooden Knife: Thought Reform in the Laogai
73
19
Chapter seven Return from Hell: Harry Wu
92
13
Chapter eight The Most Dangerous Counter-revolutionary: Religion in China and the Story of David Chou
105
15
Chapter nine A Dream of Democracy: Zhu Xiaodan
120
5
Chapter ten Sentence First, Verdict Afterwards: The Legal System in China
125
14
Chapter eleven In Defence of the Fifth Modernization: Tang Boqiao
139
15
Chapter twelve Getting Used to Surviving: Zhang Xianliang
154
9
Chapter thirteen The Fatigue of Supporting Freedom: Palden Gyatso and China's Siberia
163
20
Chapter fourteen Sexual Reform and Pseudo-Boys: Women in the Laogai
183
8
Chapter fifteen The Biggest Player in the History of Man: China's Economic Miracle
191
10
Chapter sixteen The Dream of Gold: Gulag Capitalism
201
17
Chapter seventeen The Earth on the Other Side of the World: Han Dongfang
218
14
Afterword
232
7
Appendix 1 Business and the Laogai: A Case Study
239
3
Appendix 2 Forced Labour
242
2
Appendix 3 Addresses of Organizations
244
1
Bibliography
245
4
Index
249