At half past five it was indeed a happy hour in the rapturous room of 2173 in the Rayburn building. Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was to unveil her Chairman of House Foreign Affairs Committee portrait, a position she held from 2011 to 2013. In front of an eager crowd of friends, family and supporters, Representative Ros-Lehtinen…
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New Memorial Dedicated, Holodomor “Field of Wheat”
The Nation’s Capitol added to its honored and assorted memorials by one on Saturday November 7. The Holodomor Memorial is dedicated to the millions of Ukrainians who perished during the 1932-1933 genocidal famines. In Ukrainian, holodomor means, “murder by starvation.” U.S. Representative Sander Levin (D-MI) was the keynote speaker at the dedication ceremony who introduced…
Harry Wu Discusses the Two-child Policy in China
The Eighth Communist Party of China (CPC) Fifth Plenum Session of the Central Committee has been canceled as of late October rescinding the one-child policy. All Chinese couples will have full liberalization for larger families with the current two-child policy, but public opinion is still apprehensive. Mr. Harry Wu, Executive Director of the Laogai Research…
U.S.-China Relations Evaluated Amidst Obama-Xi Summit
Breaking It All Down This week, as President Xi Jinping commences talks with the Prime Minister of Great Britain, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recalls the Obama-Xi Summit. On Tuesday the 20th of October 2015, host Bob Schieffer conducted an in-depth discussion with three eminent panelists: Kurt Campbell Chairman and CEO…
Laogai Museum Welcomes Acclaimed Author Diane Wolff
https://www.dianewolff.com/blog.htm?post=1010329The Lao Gai Museum was honored to welcome Diane Wolff at the start of October. It was a proud moment for the museum and founder Mr. Harry Wu. We hope the time spent here benefitted her research in her current endeavor to reach a more broad audience through her eloquent writing. She has cast a…
Laogai Memorial Museum Welcomes First Student Groups to New Location
LRF’s Executive Director and founder Mr. Harry Wu treated each assembly with an informative speech detailing his experience in the laogai camps and current state of China’s prison system. The intrigued students astutely asked questions and were then given a tour of the museum’s exhibits. The tour included, but was not limited to: a…
Young Diplomats Museum Tour
A group of over 120 high school students visited the Laogai Museum as part of Hampton University’s Young Diplomats Program on Wednesday, July 15. The students received guided tours of the museum from Laogai Research Foundation staff and were treated to a presentation delivered by Executive Director Harry Wu on his experiences in China’s Laogai…
Museum Closed July 3-4
The Laogai Museum will close Friday July 3 and Saturday July 4 in observation of the Fourth of July holiday. The Laogai Museum will reopen Sunday July 5.
Students from School for Ethics and Global Leadership Visit Laogai Museum
A group of students from the School for Ethics and Global Leadership visited the Laogai Museum on March 31, 2015. The students received a guided tour of the artifacts on display in the museum from Laogai Research Foundation Executive Director and the founder of Laogai Museum Harry Wu. Mr. Wu gave an account of his own harrowing story in the Laogai camp…
LRF Hosted Photo Exhibition Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In the early morning of June 4, 1989, the People’s Liberation Army, equipped with tanks and assault rifles, massacred an unknown number of unarmed civilians. The violent crackdown ended month-long demonstrations initiated by university students in Beijing calling on the Party to combat corruption…