{"product_id":"how-i-survived-a-chinese-re-education-camp-a-uyghur-womans-story-9781912454945","title":"How I Survived A Chinese 'Re-education' Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe First Memoir of China's Internment Camps by a Uyghur Woman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Moving and devastating' \u003cem\u003e- The Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'An indispensable account' - \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' \u003cem\u003e- Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn November 2016, Uyghur mother and petroleum engineer Gulbahar Haitiwaji answered a routine call from her former company in Xinjiang. \"Just paperwork,\" they said. She flew from Paris to Karamay - and vanished. Her passport was seized; months of interrogations followed; after a year in custody she endured a nine-minute \"trial\" without judge or lawyers and was sentenced to seven years in a Chinese \"re-education\" camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow I Survived a Chinese 'Re-education' Camp is her lucid, courageous account of what happened next. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the first cold night in Karamay County Jail, Haitiwaji invites readers into Cell 202, where the lights never dim, cameras never blink, and a wall poster lists rules that forbid speaking Uyghur or praying - while promising a hollow \"right to worship.\" She is chained to a bed for days, fed thin congee and stale bread, and taught how fear erases time. The details are precise and unforgettable, rendered with the restraint of a witness who will not look away. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTransferred to the Baijiantan \"school\" on the desert outskirts of Karamay, Haitiwaji meets a new, meticulously engineered routine: military drills, silence at meals, and eleven hours a day reciting Communist Party slogans under the watchful portrait of Xi Jinping. The window shutters are bolted; the outside world becomes rumour and memory. One morning, a cellmate named Nadira is simply called by her number and taken away - never to return. In this world of numbered bunks and numbered women, Haitiwaji fights to keep her name. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the razor wire, her daughter Gulhumar is knocking on doors in Paris - reporters, lawyers, diplomats -refusing to let her mother's story be buried. The book's preface situates Gulbahar's ordeal within Xinjiang's transformation into a surveillance state and the spread of \"transformation-through-education\" camps that would swallow over a million lives, illuminating the machine that ensnared an apolitical mother because of a photo of her child at a peaceful rally. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with journalist Rozenn Morgat and translated into English by Edward Gauvin, this memoir balances stark testimony with startling tenderness: a family wedding in Paris before the phone call; a remembered strand of perfume that keeps two bunkmates human; the first phone home after months of silence. Haitiwaji's voice is both intimate and composed-refusing sensationalism, insisting on dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Canbury Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781912454945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"Gulbahar Haitiwaji,Rozenn Morgat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52418886992053,"sku":"9781912454945","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_962cdbce-9a3f-409d-bafe-6092467cb7c5.jpg?v=1775570691","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/how-i-survived-a-chinese-re-education-camp-a-uyghur-womans-story-9781912454945","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}