Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

The Chief Witness: escape from China’s modern-day concentration camps by Sayragul Sauytbay

3 reviews

thejennybee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

What an important and terrifying account from an articulate survivor of some of the worst atrocities on the planet. The Chinese government is every bit as evil as Nazi Germany was, and committing human rights horrors on millions of people. Today, now. As we speak. The book also describes China’s stated plans for literal world domination, with the United States as their public enemy #1. It’s unsettling to say the least how pernicious their actions to eradicate whole peoples and cultures are, and how the persecuted citizenry talks itself into accepting one dehumanization after another to avoid violence upon themselves and their loved ones. We say there’s nothing we could do to intervene. We say their abuses and forced imprisonment in concentration camps and torture and genocide couldn’t happen here. Neither of those things feels true after reading this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Deportation

marilu's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Be aware of the content warnings, some parts are important to tell and show the world, but very hard to take.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Police brutality

Moderate: Mental illness, Racial slurs, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Deportation

the_literary_goth's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Torture, Violence, Islamophobia, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness, Stalking, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility and Slavery