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ivassavi's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape and Police brutality
Moderate: Racial slurs, Suicide, Deportation, Mental illness, Torture, and Violence
scribepub's review against another edition
The Chief Witness is a deeply disturbing insight into the dark heart of the Chinese Communist Party and its reign of terror in Xinjiang. It will rank historically along with the great literary exposes of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulag.
Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton
scribepub's review against another edition
The Chief Witness is a deeply disturbing insight into the dark heart of the Chinese Communist Party and its reign of terror in Xinjiang. It will rank historically along with the great literary exposes of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulag.
Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton
scribepub's review against another edition
The Chief Witness is a deeply disturbing insight into the dark heart of the Chinese Communist Party and its reign of terror in Xinjiang. It will rank historically along with the great literary exposes of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet gulag.
Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton
careinthelibrary's review against another edition
4.0
The Chief Witness: Escape from China’s Modern-Day Concentration Camps by Sayragul Sauytbay is such a necessary piece of writing. This covers an ongoing genocide of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim ethnic groups in China's northwesternmost province, East Turkestan (also known as its colonized name, Xinjiang). So packed full of information that has given me the knowledge to feel confident in my perspective and to advocate for the victims of this crime against humanity and hopefully spread the word so others learn and resist it as well.
Sauytbay covers everything from her childhood before the majority of the prejudice to her young adulthood facing some discrimination, travel restriction, and religious practice oppression all the way to complete surveillance, detention, torture, medical experimentation, all the trademarks of a genocide.
If you're not convinced by the absolute necessity of reading this to better inform yourself on this preventable violence, the memoir itself is good *shrugs*. If that's what you needed to hear to want to pick this up.
content warnings for: cultural genocide, physical and mental torture, starvation, Islamophobia, sexual violence, gang rape (described on page), sexual coercion, medical experimentation, poisoning, authoritarian government regime.
Sauytbay covers everything from her childhood before the majority of the prejudice to her young adulthood facing some discrimination, travel restriction, and religious practice oppression all the way to complete surveillance, detention, torture, medical experimentation, all the trademarks of a genocide.
If you're not convinced by the absolute necessity of reading this to better inform yourself on this preventable violence, the memoir itself is good *shrugs*. If that's what you needed to hear to want to pick this up.
content warnings for: cultural genocide, physical and mental torture, starvation, Islamophobia, sexual violence, gang rape (described on page), sexual coercion, medical experimentation, poisoning, authoritarian government regime.