Jiabiangou

'wedged between ditches') is a former farm labor camp (laogai) located in the area under the administration of Jiuquan in the northwestern desert region of Gansu Province.

[2][3][4][5] Jiabiangou was a camp for "re-education through labor"[2][3] that was used to imprison intellectuals and former government officials who were declared to be "rightist" in the Anti-Rightist Movement of the Chinese Communist Party.

[3] In order to survive, prisoners ate leaves,[3][8] tree barks,[3][8] worms and rats,[3][8] human and animal waste,[4] and flesh from dead inmates.

[2] Authorities in Gansu[8] assigned a doctor to the fabrication of medical records for every dead inmate stating various natural causes of death, but never mentioning starvation.

[2] Partially fictionalized accounts of firsthand recollections from 13 survivors of the camp have been presented in the book Woman from Shanghai: Tales of Survival From a Chinese Labor Camp by Yang Xianhui[9] (originally published as "Farewell to Jiabiangou", Chinese: 告别夹边沟; pinyin: Gàobié Jiābiāngōu, translated into English by Wen Huang with support from a 2007 PEN Translation Fund Grant.