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In the Camps Darren Byler

In the Camps By Darren Byler

In the Camps by Darren Byler


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A shocking insight into what is really happening to China's Uyghurs

In the Camps Summary

In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler

A revelatory account of what is really happening to China's Uyghurs

'Intimate, sombre, and damning... compelling.' Financial Times
'Chilling... Horrifying.' Spectator

In China's vast northwestern region, more than a million and a half Muslims have vanished into internment camps and associated factories. Based on hours of interviews with camp survivors and workers, thousands of government documents, and over a decade of research, Darren Byler, one of the leading experts on Uyghur society uncovers their plight.

Revealing a sprawling network of surveillance technology supplied by firms in both China and the West, Byler shows how the country has created an unprecedented system of Orwellian control. A definitive account of one of the world's gravest human rights violations, In the Camps is also a potent warning against the misuse of technology and big data.

In the Camps Reviews

Intimate, sombre and damning... These varied personal accounts tell of pervasive confusion and fear as, starting in 2017, a previously small-scale re-education programme suddenly became a sprawling system of internment camps where anyone suspected of extremist thoughts or pre-crimes was sent without trial. * Financial Times *

Harrowing and intensely human. A devastating account of the incarceration of almost an entire population by the all-knowing Chinese state, aided by sophisticated technology, much of it devised in the West.

* John Kampfner, bestselling author of Why the Germans Do It Better *
Inside China, a monstrous crime is being committed. This book tells the dark story of how the Uyghur people are being smudged out. Read it. * John Sweeney, investigative journalist and bestselling novelist *
This important book takes us directly into the dystopian world of Uyghur dispossession, infrastructural power, and terror capitalism. Byler shines a piercing light into the darkness of Xinjiang's Surveillance State. * Lord Alton of Liverpool, Independent Crossbench Member of the House of Lords *

A heart-breaking, brilliant and thought-provoking read. We all need to educate ourselves on how great injustices are being perpetrated against the innocent because of their religion and culture.

* Gulwali Passarlay, author of The Lightless Sky *
Chilling... To be ethnically Uighur, or even notionally Muslim [in China], is to live in a state of permanent suspicion and fear... horrifying. * Spectator *

About Darren Byler

Darren Byler is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He writes a regular column for SupChina and his work has appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Prospect Magazine,as well as many academic journals. He received his PhD in anthropology at the University of Washington.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction 2: Pre-crime 3: Phone Disaster 4: Two Faced 5: The Unfree 6: Conclusion: Behind Seattle Stands Xinjiang

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GOR012229302
9781838955922
1838955925
In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony by Darren Byler
Used - Like New
Paperback
Atlantic Books
2022-02-03
160
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