Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Wilde Zwanen: Drie Dochters van China by Jung Chang

9 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

rdorrington's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Miscarriage, Torture, Violence, Suicide attempt, Child death, Police brutality, and Suicide

alexhaydon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Gore, Torture, War, Suicide attempt, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Death, Death of parent, Confinement, and Adult/minor relationship

josiee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Classism, Miscarriage, Confinement, Cannibalism, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Suicide attempt, War, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Murder, Pregnancy, Torture, Rape, Police brutality, and Violence

montyalmoro's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Medical trauma, Ableism, Abortion, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Murder, Police brutality, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, War, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Terminal illness, Violence, and Xenophobia

lu_ranger's review against another edition

dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicide, War, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Torture, and Police brutality

francestea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

Fascinating and amazing true story about a very recent time in Chinese history. If you’re intimidated by the size of this tome the audiobook is also quite good. A few parts lagged a bit but it still warrants a 5 star rating. If you’re looking for fiction on similar topics I recommend Madeleine Tien’s Do Not Say We Have Nothing and Amy Tan’s Kitchen Gods Wife and Joy Luck Club.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Moderate: Cannibalism, Confinement, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

Starvation, famine, forced labour

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