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bringlaurasnacks's review against another edition
5.0
Beyond the historical accounts I found the second half of this book nearly as troubling as the first. I could not help but draw parallels between Japan's attempt to censor and minimize their own crimes (can we just call this genocide?) in texts and their education system to the current attempt to purge black history from the American school systems. This is an absolutely necessary read for every citizen of the world. "As Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice."
"Apparently some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided only that they occur far enough away to pose. O personal threat." -Iris Chang
Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Murder, Colonisation, and War
purplepickle's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Minor: Mental illness, Cannibalism, and Abandonment
jasisreading's review against another edition
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
thewallner's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Xenophobia, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War
ariberri's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Gore, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, and Blood
readerofdafuk's review against another edition
4.5
I knew it was bad but Holy Shit
Did well to explain the mentality of why it happened but man this was a brutal read
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and War
kayesomething's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and War
Moderate: Confinement, Xenophobia, and Pregnancy
dmathuna's review against another edition
4.5
The sheer barbarity and brutality shown to the Chinese inhabitants of Nanjing is staggering and each page you uncover a new horror you previously thought incomprehensible. The detailing of how widespread the systematic rape of all women regardless of age, pregnancy, occupation churned my stomach in a way I don’t think has ever happened to me. I am absolutely forever changed by the contents of this book and it will never leave me for the rest of my life..
The fact that elements of Japanese society still can’t accept that this event occurred much less that their soldiers carried it out with explicit knowledge by their government leaders is tragic and should be a crime akin to denial of the holocaust. I can only hope that since the time the book was published that attitudes there have started to change. More than 300,000 people were murdered by the occupation and we did them a disservice by not remembering this event more.
At the time of me writing this review Iris Chang would have been 56.
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Miscarriage
lorepanda's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and War
Moderate: Suicide and Xenophobia
vapblack's review against another edition
As long as you're aware of her bias, it's a good and informative book.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Excrement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Classism