“re-education through labor.” In the 1950s, prisoners were sent to Chinese labor camps in order to get a “re-education through labor” and hopefully, come out of the system as better and more productive members of society; but after learning about the Laogai system more in depth, they have not become better and more productive members of society. There were approximately 350 Chinese labor camps . The Kuomintang would sentence Chinese civilians who had committed minor offenses and could be reformed to
Lily Gerloff Mao Zedong 6th, Knaupp May 6th, 2014 Mao Zedong’s Impact on the World Today and Today’s Society As the founder of the People’s Republic of China, creator of the Report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan, co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, and “mastermind” behind the Great Leap Forward, (http://cla.calpoly.edu/) Mao Zedong altered the lives of millions by affecting not only China as a whole, but also the freedom and rights of everyday Chinese commoners, children, and peasants