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A review by literaryelephant
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
4.0
This is the sort of nonfiction book I think everyone- especially first world consumers- should read. It's a little hard to recommend it that widely though given the very dark nature of the content; CWs for all sorts of human rights violations, including explicit descriptions of torture. This is certainly one of the most difficult books I've ever read in terms of bleakness, but if you can stomach the disturbing scenes I'd highly urge you to pick up this book as ongoing forced labor is a topic we all should be more aware of and resistant to. Your purchases matter. Lives are literally at stake. I will never buy the same way having read this book.
The only reason this isn't a 5-star for me is that I rate based on personal reading experience (as opposed to importance of content or objective merit) and I found myself slightly confused by the info-heavy background chapters on Chinese sociopolitical history, which is the fault of my own gaps of knowledge and not of this book, which does an excellent job condensing a lot of information into a readable length of work.
The only reason this isn't a 5-star for me is that I rate based on personal reading experience (as opposed to importance of content or objective merit) and I found myself slightly confused by the info-heavy background chapters on Chinese sociopolitical history, which is the fault of my own gaps of knowledge and not of this book, which does an excellent job condensing a lot of information into a readable length of work.
Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Forced institutionalization, and Trafficking
Moderate: Death and Death of parent