Wednesday-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 [...]
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International Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961
Posted: February 13, 2012 in Events0
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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June 18th, 2011 – The Laogai Museum and Knowledge Commons DC teamed up to host an “Introduction to the Laogai: China’s Forced Labor Prisons” class at the museum this past Saturday. Knowledge Commons DC is a free school based on the idea of learning outside the classroom. It is a collaborative project of local artists [...]
Saturday, June 18th, 11am – 1:30 pm Knowledge Commons DC is a free school based on the idea of learning outside the classroom. It is a collaborative project of local artists and organizations which takes advantage of the fact that everyone is an expert in something, and that we can all learn from each other. [...]
In Memory of Tiananmen: Yu Zhijian & Rep. Chris Smith Speak at Laogai Museum
Posted: June 7, 2011 in EventsOn June 3rd, the eve of the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Incident, Laogai Research Foundation hosted Tiananmen hero Yu Zhijian and Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) at the Laogai Museum. Amidst the tumultuous 1989 democracy movement, Mr. Yu, along with two others, filled eggs with ink and threw them at Mao Zedong’s massive portrait [...]
