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How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp

Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Rozenn Morgat, Edward Gauvin

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English

Canbury Press
02 March 2023

Memoirs; Human rights; Religious freedom & freedom of worship; Political oppression & persecution

'Intimate, highly sensory'

- Daily Telegraph

'Indispensable' - Sunday Times

'Harrowing' - New Statesman

'A powerful personal narrative' - Irish Times

THE FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT THE 'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN

For three years, Gulbahar Haitiwaji disappeared into a secret network of jails.

Now, she is the first female Uyghur survivor to give a connected and revealing account of life inside China's brainwashing 're-education' camps. Her account reads like a modern version of 1984. It tells the story of a woman confronted by an all-powerful state bent on crushing her spirit - and her struggle for freedom and dignity.

This rare portrait of China's gulag is visceral and internationally important.

'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait... of an educated woman passing through a system that appears at turns cruel, paranoid, capricious and devastatingly effective.' - Daily Telegraph

'Gulbahar's memoir is an indispensable account, which makes vivid the stench of fearful sweat in the cells, the newly built prison's permanent reek of white paint. It closely corresponds with other witness statements... Most impressive is her psychological honesty.' - Sunday Times

By: Gulbahar Haitiwaji, Rozenn Morgat
Translated by: Edward Gauvin
Imprint: Canbury Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9781912454945
ISBN 10: 1912454947
Publication Date: 02 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in 1966 in Ghulja in the Xinjiang region, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was an executive in the Chinese oil industry before leaving for France in 2006 with her husband and children, who obtained the status of political refugees. In 2017 she was summoned in China for an administrative issue. Once there, she was arrested and spent more than two years in a re-education camp. Thanks to the efforts of her family and the French foreign ministry she was freed and was able to return to France where she currently resides.