Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

6 reviews

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, Racial slurs, Murder, War, and Colonisation

tinathedrifter's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

5.0

What to say - this novel spoke like a Hollywood script right to my heart. The main character spends his life trying to make it out of a typecasted Generic Asian Man role that’s a trap for him, only to find

that his dream of being Kung Fu Guy was just one rung higher on the ladder that leads nowhere. The question I asked myself - closing the book, was - in what ways am I playing my own gendered version of the Young Asian Woman trap?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Suicide

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Hate crime, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, and Racism

tuesday_evening's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Deportation, Grief, Racial slurs, Racism, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Chronic illness, and Classism

thewordsdevourer's review

challenging funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

interior chinatown is an acerbic, funny, incisive satire exploring the machinations of the marginalization of asians in america, and how the latter - without much of a choice - learn to cope w/ their reality.

its comedy is rooted in its easily recognized dark truth. i also like how yu delves into not only the historical aspect of said marginalization and discrimination, but also the issue's complexity - and conplex relationship - in relation to anti-black racism, though the book's structure does make my head spin at times.

this novel indeed - to paraphrase its main character - says all the shit that asians never say, didnt even know how to say.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, and Gun violence

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Slavery, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

galexy_brain's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Death, Death of parent, and Racial slurs

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Classism, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Cursing, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

i_island's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is such an interesting read for it not be that long. I listened to it over the course of two days, mainly while cooking and cleaning and that made me experience it very differently compared to how I experienced it last time. The voice actor did a phenomenal job at capturing the energy of the performance and only made it so much better. Lovely writing Mr. Yu!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Minor: Colonisation, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Death, and Grief