Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II by William C. Kirby, Iris Chang

106 reviews

knlipke's review against another edition

It has nothing to do with how the book was written!!!! I found myself disgusted with the very true, real life events that happened to these poor people of Nanking that I couldn’t read on for the sake of my mental health. I will pick it up again one day

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

spicewitch's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

aaraia's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Extremely well-written. VERY intense and heartbreaking. Trigger warnings galore, but worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

carolinacortes's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, and War

cararainx's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This is a well written and compressive history of Japanese war crimes in China. I consider this a WWII must-read for any history buffs. The author does not shy away from describing the nature of the crimes committed against Chinese civilians even in the title. The author takes enormous strides in telling the victims stories in all their detail so that we may never forget what happened in Nanking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Rape, Murder, and War

binubri's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Sexual harassment, and War

bookiebookerman's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

4.0

Jesus fuck this was as rough to read as what it was necessary. Fuck.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Rape, Abortion, and Murder

Its really difficult to hear about this happening. 100% necessary though.

ashlightgrayson's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was such an informative piece of journalism that encompassed all necessary background information required to thoroughly understand the topic even if you have no previous knowledge. Iris Chang walks you through the long history between China and Japan prior to the Nanking massacre. This helps give context to the events that occurred during the massacre. This book also makes it easy to connect the events occurring in other regions of the world at that time to the massacre. It allows for the narrative history feel cohesive and relative to other events happening simultaneously. Nothing in history exists in a vacuum and I was happy to see that Chang was able to elaborate on this point in her writing. There is a plethora of useful sources provided in the book as well for further research. Chang proposes her own opinions within the narrative history, but always with support from sources that she cites thoroughly. She also clarifies which parts of the history she had limited sources for. Additionally, she reveals some of her own bias as she explains her own family's history pertaining to the massacre. The way Chang weaves the narrative helps to create both sympathy for the victims of the massacre, and allow for nuance for the perpetrators without absolving them of their culpability.

As I was reading through this piece it felt like I was mourning the loss of Iris Chang simultaneously. She died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2004 and reading this just made me think about what a great loss that was to the journalism community (in addition to her family and loved ones). I would have loved to see her continued contributions to the acknowledgement of Chinese and Asian history. To this day I think there is still a gap in understanding Asian history in the West. I will definitely be reading her other works. This book is one of the best nonfiction books I've read this year and it still holds up today. This has definitely reignited my interest in Asian history. Can't wait to read more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

skusaroo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

The true story of the worst thing to ever happen... until the following decade.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

Don't read this if you're easily upset by the worst things humans can do to other humans. 40,000 to 300,000 civilians murdered in SIX WEEKS and in a manner that would make the directors of gore films blush.

eerika06's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Violence