---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 19 Nov 1999 New in IGCS - Law (Human Rights) / Politics: Laogai Research Foundation (LRF) ³Ò §ï °ò ª÷ ·| Ed./Corp.: The Laogai Research Foundation, Washington, DC, USA URL: http://www.laogai.org/ Language: English. Resource type: Corporate Info./Documents. Self description: "A non-profit organization [est. in 1992 by Hongda Harry Wu] dedicated to collecting information about China's vast system of forced labor camps." Description: The site includes a search index. Site contents: (1) News (Prisons/Forced Labor; Population Control; Organ Harvesting; Dissent; Human Rights in Foreign Policy); (2) Links (Other Organizations; Documents); (3) Reports (incl. 'Feb 1998 - The International Sale of Chinese Prisoners' Organs'); (4) Pictures; (5) Testimony; (6) Publications (Bibliography of books, reports, essays and films about China’s Laogai); (7) Commentary; (8) About LRF; (9) Laogai Handbook (5th edition 1998: documents more than 1,200 camps, past and present. Each listing includes the prison name, its industry name, population, what the camp may produce, and other information gathered by the LRF). Resource suggested via the Asian Studies WWW Monitor (19 Nov 1999) by Tom Nichols ([log in to unmask]). _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L