Amelia Pang in Conversation with Dexter Tiff Roberts
Darien Library and Barrett Bookstore welcome award-winning journalist Amelia Pang to discuss her first book, Made in China. Amelia will be in conversation with Dexter Tiff Roberts, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Asia Security Initiative; adjunct instructor in political science and Mansfield Fellow at the University of Montana; and author of recently published The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory and the Future of the World. This virtual event will take place on Tuesday, March 16 at 7 p.m. Register on Darien Library’s website at darienlibrary.org/event/4880.
Made in China is the true story of a handwritten plea for help found in a box of Halloween decorations purchased from an Oregon Kmart. This letter from Sun Yi, a political prisoner forced into grueling, unpaid labor, would lead Amelia Pang in pursuit of its origins and expose the often hidden, torturous human cost of cheap consumer goods.