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• Title:[Kronzeugin. English]
  Chief witness : escape from China's modern-day concentration camps / Sayragul Sauytbay, Alexandra Cavelius ; translated by Caroline Waight.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sauytbay, Sayragul, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Cavelius, Alexandra, author.
  Waight, Caroline, translator.
  
• Published/Created:London : Scribe Publications, 2021.
  ©2021
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: DS731.K38 S38 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sauytbay, Sayragul.
  Kazakhs--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu--Social conditions.
  Ethnic conflict--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
  Uighur (Turkic people)--China--Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
  Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China)
  
• Description:308 pages, 8 unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Born in China's north-western province, Sayragul Sauytbay trained as a doctor before being appointed a senior civil servant. But her life was upended when the Chinese authorities incarcerated her. Her crime: being Kazakh, one of China's ethnic minorities. The north-western province borders the largest number of foreign nations and is the point in China that is closest to Europe. In recent years it has become home to over 1,200 penal camps--modern-day gulags that are estimated to house three million members of the Kazakh and Uyghur minorities. Imprisoned solely due to their ethnicity, inmates are subjected to relentless punishment and torture, including being beaten, raped, and used as subjects for medical experiments. The camps represent the greatest systematic incarceration of an entire people since the Third Reich. In prison, Sauytbay was put to work teaching Chinese language, culture, and politics, in the course of which she gained access to secret information that revealed Beijing's long-term plans to undermine not only its minorities, but democracies around the world. Upon her escape to Europe she was reunited with her family, but still lives under constant threat of reprisal. This rare testimony from the biggest surveillance state in the world reveals not only the full, frightening scope of China's tyrannical ambitions, but also the resilience and courage of its author"--Back cover.
  
• Notes:"First published in German in 2020 by Europa Verlag as Die Kronzeugin"--Title page verso.
  
• ISBN:9781950354528 paperback
  1950354520 paperback