Slaving Away: The 'Black Brick Kilns Scandal' Ten Years On

Ivan Franceschini

Slaving Away: The 'Black Brick Kilns Scandal' Ten Years On

Ivan Franceschini

Australian Centre on China in the World

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In the spring and summer of 2007, bands of aggrieved parents roamed the Chinese countryside looking for their missing children, whom they learned had been kidnapped and sold as slaves to illegal kilns. Thanks to the involvement of Chinese media and civil society, the so-called ‘black brick kilns incident’ became one of the most remarkable stories of popular mobilisation and resistance in contemporary China. Now that ten years have passed, are there any lessons that we can draw from this moment in history?

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Made in China Yearbook 2017: Gilded Age
Editors	Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere
Place of Publication	Canberra
Publisher	ANU Press
Pages	138-143
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9781760461980
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Number	2
Volume	2

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