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DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with the Baltimore Museum of Industry.
 \n\nAmelia Pang will be in conversation with Alec MacGillis about her new 
 book\, Made in China: A Prisoner\, an SOS Letter\, and the Hidden Cost of 
 America’s Cheap Goods.\n\nIn 2012\, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith o
 pened up a package of Halloween decorations. The cheap foam headstones had
  been five dollars at Kmart\, too good a deal to pass up. But when she ope
 ned the box\, something shocking fell out: an SOS letter\, handwritten in 
 broken English. The note’s author\, Sun Yi\, was a mild-mannered Chinese
  engineer turned political prisoner\, forced into grueling labor for campa
 igning for the freedom to join a forbidden meditation movement. He was imp
 risoned alongside petty criminals\, civil rights activists\, and tens of t
 housands of others the Chinese government had decided to “reeducate\,”
  carving foam gravestones and stitching clothing for more than fifteen hou
 rs a day.\n\nIn Made in China\, investigative journalist Amelia Pang pulls
  back the curtain on Sun’s story and the stories of others like him\, in
 cluding the persecuted Uyghur minority group whose abuse and exploitation 
 is rapidly gathering steam. What she reveals is a closely guarded network 
 of laogai—forced labor camps—that power the rapid pace of American con
 sumerism. Through extensive interviews and firsthand reportage\, Pang show
 s us the true cost of America’s cheap goods and shares what is ultimatel
 y a call to action—urging us to ask more questions and demand more answe
 rs from the companies we patronize.\n\nAmelia Pang is an award-winning jou
 rnalist who has written for publications such as Mother Jones and the New 
 Republic. She has covered topics ranging from organic import fraud to the 
 prevalence of sexual violence on Native American reservations. In 2017\, t
 he Los Angeles Press Club awarded her first place in investigative journal
 ism for her undercover reporting on the exploitation of smuggled immigrant
 s who are recruited to work in Chinese restaurants. Amelia grew up in a Ma
 ndarin-speaking household in Maryland\, and holds a BA in literary studies
  from the New School. She lives near Washington\, DC\, with her husband\, 
 an organic farmer. This is her first book.\n\nAlec MacGillis is a senior r
 eporter at ProPublica. MacGillis previously reported for The New Republic\
 , The Washington Post\, and the Baltimore Sun. He won the 2016 Robin Toner
  Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting\, the 2017 Polk Award for Nat
 ional Reporting\, and the 2017 Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award. His work has a
 ppeared in the New Yorker\, Atlantic\, New York\, Harper's\, and New York 
 Times Magazine\, among other publications. A resident of Baltimore\, MacGi
 llis is the author of The Cynic\, a 2014 biography of Sen. Mitch McConnell
 \, and the forthcoming Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click Americ
 a.\n\nASL interpretation will be available to attendees.\n\nVisit https://
 www.theivybookshop.com/ to order your copy of Made in China\, and to pre-o
 rder Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America.\n\nWriters LIVE
  programs are supported in part by a bequest from The Miss Howard Hubbard 
 Adult Programming Fund.
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