Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Cigni selvatici: Tre figlie della Cina by Jung Chang, Lidia Perria

19 reviews

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

montyalmoro's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

schnarlie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

A deeply fascinating book that helped me understand the history and politics of China while at the same time making me feel deeply with the described people. Highly recommend this to anyone Chinese or interested in China, but also might be interesting to those who aren't either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Classism

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, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

labyrinthsandlayers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and War

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: Confinement, Violence, Cannibalism, and Murder

Minor: Miscarriage and Suicide

Starvation, famine, forced labour

aristhecool's review against another edition

informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage

Minor: Abortion

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, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, and Excrement

juliastern__'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Grief