Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

7 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

dch7's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and War

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

98romantic's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

A classic for a reason!! Beautifully written to the point that it feels like fiction, but really it’s just credit to Jung Chang’s skills as a writer. Amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Misogyny, and Confinement

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

hotkoolaidpotato's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Amazing read for anyone curious about China in the 20th century. It’s a hard read, emotionally, but this book genuinely changed my life and the way I looked at and learned about other cultures and nationalities. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, and Violence