On March 19th, Laogai Research Foundation director Harry Wu had the opportunity to speak about human rights in China with students at the University of Pennsylvania. The lecture was part of the semester-long Center for East Asian Studies Colloquium Series, “China and International Human Rights , which is led by the Center’s Director, Professor Jacques [...]
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Harry Wu & Yu Jie protest at the White House against Xi Jinping
Posted: March 14, 2012 in Events, Laogai NewsLaogai Research Foundation director Harry Wu and his friend, recently exiled Chinese dissident Yu Jie (余杰), spent Valentine’s Day participating in a multiparty protest against Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s Washington visit. Organized by Students for a Free Tibet, a coalition of Tibetan, Chinese, Uyghur, Taiwanese and human rights groups held a joint rally in [...]
Scholars and Survivors Discuss China’s Great Famine at Laogai Research Foundation Conference
Posted: February 28, 2012 in Events, Laogai NewsOn February 15th and 16th, Laogai Research Foundation hosted an international conference on China’s Great Famine in Washington, DC. From 1959 to 1961, the Chinese people suffered history’s largest famine, which killed an estimated 40 million people. LRF’s conference, “The World’s Greatest Famine: Witnessing, Surviving, Remembering”, brought together academics and authors from around the world [...]
International Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961
Posted: February 13, 2012 in EventsWednesday-Thursday, February 15-16, 2012 The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Great Chinese Famine, recorded by Beijing as lasting from 1958 to 1961, but actually extending from 1958 to 1962. The death of at least 40 million Chinese were not caused by bad weather or foreign plots, but by Mao’s unfeasible [...]
Laogai Museum founder Harry Wu spoke last night at a meeting of the Oxfam Club at the University of Maryland in Baltimore County. The group of undergraduate students are members of UMBC’s chapter of Oxfam America. According to its website, Oxfam America is “an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and [...]
Hello everybody! October has been a busy month, and we at the Laogai Museum are happy to say that we have been visited by several student groups this fall. The tour groups, which have ranged from high school freshman to Annapolis Naval Academy language students, came to our new Dupont Circle location to gain a [...]
2pm Saturday, 10/08 & 10/22 BBC: Prisoner Organ Donors (43 min.) This BBC investigative report uncovers China’s lucrative scheme of harvesting organs from executed prisoners. Sue Lloyd-Roberts uncovers the dark secrets of China’s organ transplant business. (Contains disturbing images and footage) 60 Minutes: Made in China (15 min.) Ed Bradley travels to China to expose [...]
The Laogai Museum will be continuing with its film series in the month of September. We will be showing documentaries that show the human devastation caused by Mao and his communist regime. As always, this is open to the general public and is free of charge. In Search of Lin Zhao’s Soul September 10th, [...]
For the month of August the Laogai Museum will be hosting its first ever film series. Starting August 10, the museum will be showing a different documentary every Wednesday for the rest of the month, detailing a different area of human rights in China. The films will be playing all day long in the museum’s [...]
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