Editing Laogai (section)

=== Modern era ===
In 2003, the word "laogai" entered the [[Oxford English Dictionary]].  It entered the German ''[[Duden]]'' in 2005,<ref name="LRF25">{{cite web | url=http://www.laogai.org/news2/book/handbook05-06.pdf | title=Laogai Handbook | publisher=The Laogai Research Foundation | year=2006 | access-date=October 18, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080527202338/http://www.laogai.org/news2/book/handbook05-06.pdf |archive-date = May 27, 2008}} p. 25–6.</ref> and French and Italian dictionaries in 2006.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cicus.org/info/ArtShow.asp?ID=42171 | title=祝贺LAOGAI（劳改）进入意大利语词典 | author=吴弘达 ([[Harry Wu]]) | date=January 19, 2007 | access-date=December 12, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213173117/http://www.cicus.org/info/ArtShow.asp?ID=42171 | archive-date=February 13, 2012 | url-status=dead }} English summary: "[http://www.cicus.org/info_Eng/artshow.asp?ID=7138 Congratulations! Laogai entered Italian dictionary!] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213173126/http://www.cicus.org/info_Eng/artshow.asp?ID=7138 |date=February 13, 2012 }}"</ref>

[[Harry Wu]] has written books, including ''Troublemaker'' and ''Laogai,'' that describe the system from the 19(?)0s to the 1990s. Wu spent 19 years, from 1960 to 1979, as a prisoner in these camps, for having criticized the government while he was a young college student.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2003/cr_harry_wu.html|title=Exposing Laogai: Harry Wu Speaks At AIM Luncheon|access-date=August 20, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070610072617/http://www.academia.org/campus_reports/2003/cr_harry_wu.html |archive-date = June 10, 2007}}</ref> After almost starving to death in the camps, he eventually moved to the United States as a visiting scholar in 1985. In 1992, Wu created the [[Laogai Research Foundation]], a human rights [[NGO]] located in Washington, DC. In 2008, Wu opened the [[Laogai Museum]] in Washington, D.C., calling it the first ever United States museum to directly address human rights in China.<ref name="washington times"/><ref name="taipei times">{{cite news | url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/11/10/2003428244 | work=The Taipei Times | access-date=December 12, 2008 | date=November 10, 2008 | author=Agence France-Presse | author-link=Agence France-Presse | title=US museum displays China's 'laogai' | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081117112908/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2008/11/10/2003428244 | archive-date=November 17, 2008 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="press release">{{cite web|url=http://www.laogai.org/news/newsdetail.php?id=3216 |publisher=Laogai Research Foundation |title=Press Release: Laogai Museum Now Open to the Public |date=November 13, 2008 |access-date=December 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122061900/http://laogai.org/news/newsdetail.php?id=3216 |archive-date=January 22, 2009 }}</ref> In 2008, the Laogai Research Foundation estimated that approximately 1,045 ''laogai'' facilities were operating in China, and contained an estimated 500,000 to 2 million detainees.<ref name="LRF6">{{cite web | url=http://www.laogai.org/news2/book/handbook05-06.pdf | title=Laogai Handbook | publisher=The Laogai Research Foundation | year=2006 | access-date=October 18, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080527202338/http://www.laogai.org/news2/book/handbook05-06.pdf |archive-date = May 27, 2008}} p. 6.</ref>