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Re-education in Communist China

23/09/2013 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, Re-education in Communist China

Hear from a British man who spent five years being 're-educated' in China in the 1950s

Robert Ford, a British man who spent five years being re-educated in the 1950s after being captured by Chinese soldiers in Tibet.

Re-education is still used as a form of punishment in Communist China.  Hear from Robert Ford, a British man who spent five years being re-educated in the 1950s after being captured by Chinese soldiers in Tibet.

(Photo: Chinese soldiers enter Tibet in 1950. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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