The book suffers from the usual library damage limited to the front end paper. Having been borrowed only four times, it remains a clean and solid copy. "Harry Wu was a Chinese human rights activist. Wu spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps, and he became a resident and citizen of the United States. In 1992, he founded the Laogai Research Foundation. Laogai , the abbreviation for Láodòng Gaizào , which means "reform through labor", is a slogan of the Chinese criminal justice system and has been used to refer to the use of penal labour and prison farms in the People's Republic of China (PRC)." (Wikipedia) xv, 247 pages.