{"product_id":"9781912454945","title":"How I Survived A Chinese 'Re-education' Camp: A Uyghur Woman's Story","description":"\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\n\u003cp\u003eHow I Survived a Chinese 'Re-education' Camp is her lucid, courageous account of what happened next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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\n\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","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52536563302631,"sku":"Uyghur Studies","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3680\/9959\/files\/EAN-9781912454945_1.jpg?v=1788027484","url":"https:\/\/jfbooks.org\/products\/9781912454945","provider":"JF Books | 季風書園","version":"1.0","type":"link"}