In the Camps

Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony

Darren Byler

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Atlantic
29 March 2022

History; International relations; Political oppression & persecution

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.

'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

By: Darren Byler
Imprint: Atlantic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 209g
ISBN: 9781838955922
ISBN 10: 1838955925
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 29 March 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Darren Byler is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on Uyghur dispossession, infrastructual power and 'terror capitalism' in Xinjiang.

Reviews for In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony

'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