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The Exhibitionist: A guide to the Laogai Museum (Washington Post)
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on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 10:24
Washington Post | by Jessica Goldstein | 19 August 2011
At the entrance of the Laogai Museum in Dupont Circle, a small display introduces the Laogai prison system of China alongside panels of information about Nazi Germany’s concentration camps, the Soviet gulags, and the Cambodian killing fields. The much lesser-known Laogai system, designed to “punish those identified as opponents of the Communist regime,” is portrayed at the museum (founded by Harry Wu, who spent 19 years in the labor camps and created the museum because of his experiences there) as repressive and brutal. The exhibits provide a comprehensive, and at times very disturbing, history of the Laogai.