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A review by kimreads14
Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower by Roseann Lake
informative
reflective
2.5
Argh I’m sad to only give this 2.5⭐️ but here’s why:
- The overall topic: FASCINATING!
- The execution: pretty poor actually 😬
So let’s break it down!
The book is messy, the structure, and the little something in non-fiction that link the chapters to one another is lacking here.
The best crafter chapter in my opinion was actually the one that drew a comparison between China and other East Asian countries.
But overall the main issue I had was the fact that this book is very “we do it better in the West”. If you’re a woman from the West and you tell me that past 25yo you’ve never heard someone ask “will you soon get married?” “Will you soon start popping babies?” You’re very lucky! The only difference I guess is that we don’t have a fully coded term for it (at least that I’m aware of in English, in my native language, French, we do). And I guess, that’s what led me to bump this book to 2.5⭐️. The author’s lack of willingness to even acknowledge that this occurs in the West too.
- The overall topic: FASCINATING!
- The execution: pretty poor actually 😬
So let’s break it down!
The book is messy, the structure, and the little something in non-fiction that link the chapters to one another is lacking here.
The best crafter chapter in my opinion was actually the one that drew a comparison between China and other East Asian countries.
But overall the main issue I had was the fact that this book is very “we do it better in the West”. If you’re a woman from the West and you tell me that past 25yo you’ve never heard someone ask “will you soon get married?” “Will you soon start popping babies?” You’re very lucky! The only difference I guess is that we don’t have a fully coded term for it (at least that I’m aware of in English, in my native language, French, we do). And I guess, that’s what led me to bump this book to 2.5⭐️. The author’s lack of willingness to even acknowledge that this occurs in the West too.