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=== Harry Wu (吴弘达). Laogai: The Chinese Gulag. Westview Press, 1992. ===
—Though polemical, it is one of the earliest systematic English descriptions of laogai structures, cadre behavior, and labor-camp hierarchy.

Tang, Daxian (唐达献). 《劳改生涯》. 香港：天地图书, 2007.
—Detailed survivor account of the laogai system.

Li, Rui (李锐). Diaries and essays, esp. 《庐山会议实录》.
—Not about laojiao, but a goldmine on mechanisms of surveillance and political threat-management.

Shen Zhihua (沈志华). Multiple works on state security archives.
—Excellent for contextualizing early state-security logic behind special-case labeling.

Perry Link. The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System. Princeton University Press, 2000.
—Insights into dossiers, surveillance, and emotional discipline mechanisms.