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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 desired fake-mushroom feel. His cuts grow infected, but he keeps working, trying to fill an impossi...

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 comprehensive” in the world. Since 2014, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been involved in at leas...

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 Pang’s investigation of forced labor practices in China, her main subject — a Falun Gong pra...

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 with her new husband. But Sophie learns that all is not as it seems when a pregnant woman named Beli...

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 revelations are confined to factories that pay their workers. In “Made in China,” Amelia Pang e...