Harry Wu

Harry Wu (Chinese Wú Hongda ,吴弘达, born 1937 in Shanghai) is a born American citizen in China and Chinese dissident, describing especially the Chinese labor camps ( Laogai ).

1960 Geology student Wu was arrested as a " counterrevolutionary rightist " and held without charge 19 years in labor camps. In 1985, he was able to travel to the U.S. and was a guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. As executive director of the " Laogai Research Foundation " in Washington, DC He informed about the labor camp and the products manufactured there.

Works

  • Laogai - The Chinese Gulag, 1993, ISBN 081331769X
  • Only the wind is free. My Years in China's Gulag, 1994, ISBN 3550070624
  • Troublemaker: one man 's crusade against China 's cruelty, 1996, ISBN 0970402996
  • Those who remain silent will be guilty. In China's labor camps suffer eight million people, 1996, ISBN 3785708629
  • Thunder of the Night: My life in Chinese prison camps, 2009, ISBN 386744109X
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