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Danwei: Wu Si on the intractable problem of forced labor

June 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Brilliant interview with noted historian Wu Si regarding the illegal kilns in Shanxi and forced labor in general. HUGE props to Joel Martinson for the great translation. Wu Si dug through the archives and notes that forced labor, especially in the mining sector, has a long and tortuous history. Disconnects and dissonances between the [...]

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