Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Wilde Zwanen: Drie Dochters van China by Jung Chang

6 reviews

carmentxx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

on my cover Mary Wesley writes that ‘it is impossible to exaggerate the important of this book’. in my ignorance i said to my friend, how important can it be? yeah, pretty fucking important. one of the only truthful, harrowing, beyond emotional memoirs to come out of the apocalyptic, cultish nightmare that was 20th century china. how can you give this book anything other than 5 stars? this book took me through every inch of human emotion and poured every detail of the horror- and small amounts of relentless hope- that maoist china enforced. mao was a psychopathic sadist who thrived on horror, destruction, and genocide of his own people. we can never forget. we will not forget. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Confinement, Death, Police brutality, Body horror, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Murder, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Bullying, Child abuse, and Medical content

philosopher_kj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Suicide attempt, Torture, Violence, War, Classism, Colonisation, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Death, Physical abuse, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, Miscarriage, and Xenophobia

Minor: Excrement, Abortion, and Drug use

schnarlie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

A deeply fascinating book that helped me understand the history and politics of China while at the same time making me feel deeply with the described people. Highly recommend this to anyone Chinese or interested in China, but also might be interesting to those who aren't either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder, War, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Child death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Bullying, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Classism, and Miscarriage

labyrinthsandlayers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, War, Violence, and Xenophobia

temsu's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Death, Medical content, Blood, Murder, Bullying, Child death, Torture, Death of parent, Gore, Misogyny, Mental illness, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Suicide, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

aristhecool's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Xenophobia, Violence, Torture, Suicide, Sexual violence, Police brutality, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion