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Five chapters into Made in China, Amelia Pang’s investigation of forced labour practices in China, her main subject — a Falun Gong practitioner named Sun Yi — is tasked with making decorative paper mushrooms for export, it is rumoured, to Europe. It is early during his stay in a forced labour camp called Masanjia, and the assignment is supposed to be a cushy one. How difficult can it be to make paper mushrooms? Sun, however, soon scrapes his fingers rubbing the paper together to get the...

Chinese Regime Leads the World in Attacking Its Citizens Abroad: Report The Chinese regime is aggressively targeting exiles and dissident communities abroad, as it extends its ability to persecute its citizens anywhere in the world, a new report warns. Kidnappings, assaults, and threats are just some of the tactics used by Beijing to repress overseas-based critics, and religious and ethnic minorities, in a campaign described by advocacy group Freedom House as the “most sophisticated and compr...

The Alarming Human Toll of Cheap Stuff ‘Made in China’ Workers at a textile factory in Huaibei, China, in July 2020. “When we are standing … in front of the gentle glow of a computer screen,” Amelia Pang argues, “we don’t feel the agony of the workers who made our products as deeply as we feel our desires.”Credit...Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Buy Book ▾ By Lauren Hilgers By Amelia Pang Five chapters into “Made in China,” Amelia Pa...

Meissner ( The Last Year of the War) spins an exceptional story about an Irish immigrant who lands in San Francisco shortly before the 1906 earthquake. After spending two years in New York City, Sophie Whalen, 20, answers a newspaper ad from widower Martin Hocking of San Francisco, who is seeking a wife for him and a mother for his daughter. Sophie falls head over heels for Martin’s five-year-old daughter, Kat, having given up having a child of her own, and looks forward to developing a bond ...

Stephen Phillips January 26, 2021Updated: January 27, 2021, 7:22 am “Made in China” tells of how the totalitarian state stokes its economic miracle while wiping out religious and cultural affinities deemed a threat to the one-party system. Photo: Algonquin Books We tend not to dwell on the provenance of cheap gizmos. Periodically, we’re moved to outrage, even boycott, by revelations of the abject conditions in which certain items are produced; then we move on. Actually, these...

2021s Most Highly Anticipated New Books: 26 Fiction and Nonfiction Titles to Get Lost In On 12/23/20 at 3:00 PM EST There is much to anticipate in the new year, and the thought of getting out and about is not the least of them. But until social distancing is a distant memory, you can still snuggle up with a good read. Enjoy the rare pleasure of turning the crisp pages of some of these intriguing books coming out in the first half of the year. ...

is it really? that just hurts. >> why does it hurt? >> feels like it should be late january easement we a january. it is five days from pitchers and catchers reporting. >> with us on set, we have former treasury official steve rattner. msnbc contributor mike barnicle. the host of "way too early" thomas roberts. >> how is it going? >> morning. >> everybody all right? >> yeah. >> steve rattner, in a few minutes, will explain why he has finally fallen in love with america and how i helped...

0 protests." it was from the most senior intelligence officer who was on the ground. >> the way the agency works, hes been running 24 hours a day to nail every fact. and now hes reaching out four days into this e-mail directly to the most senior levels of his organization saying again with a big red crayon as clearly as he can there were no protests. >> well, the senate report does not explain when morel read the e-mail. the word "islamic" was cut but "demonstration" stayed in. two days later th...