Tania Rakhmanova
creator
Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System
Overview
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Mao Tsetung established a system of labor camps for systematic repression, known as Laogai, an abbreviation for "Reform Through Labor". In such camps, forced labor and physical and mental torture were used to bring about a so-called mental reform, re-education in the spirit of the Chinese Communist Party. Millions of Chinese were affected. Many were executed. In hundreds of camps, the Party took advantage of the prisoners' free labor to build the economy. Self-criticism and denunciation were often the only way to escape martyrdom. Successive waves of purges culminated in the Cultural Revolution, which saw massive human rights abuses, political assassinations, massacres, and exiles in remote parts of the country. Using unreleased archive footage, the documentary tells the story of the invention, development and improvement of China's totalitarian system of surveillance and repression up to the present day, never told before.70%
Cast
Camille Sannes
Self - Narrator (voice)
Total episodes: 2
Ai Weiwei
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Ren Wanding
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Wang Juntao
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Li Shuying
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Wei Zidan
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Ping Hu
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Wei Jingsheng
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Gulbahar Haitwaji
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Xiao Qiang
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Tong Yi
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Teng Biao
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Camille Sannes
Self - Narrator (voice)
Total episodes: 2
Ai Weiwei
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Ren Wanding
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Wang Juntao
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Li Shuying
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Wei Zidan
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Ping Hu
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Wei Jingsheng
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Gulbahar Haitwaji
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Xiao Qiang
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Tong Yi
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Teng Biao
Self - Interviewee
Total episodes: 2
Extra
Release Date
March 28, 2023Last air Date
March 28, 2023Status
EndedOriginal Language
English, Mandarin, French, UighurNetworks
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Season 1
Aired on: 2023 | 2 Episodes
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