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* Huang Taitai's treatment of Lindo in ''The Red Candle'' when she refuses to sleep with her husband.

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* Huang Taitai's treatment of Lindo in ''The Red Candle'' when she Lindo's husband refuses to sleep with her husband.her.
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* Huang Taitai's treatment of Lindo in ''The Red Candle,'' when she refuses to sleep with her husband.

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* Huang Taitai's treatment of Lindo in ''The Red Candle,'' Candle'' when she refuses to sleep with her husband.
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* The death of Rose's four-year-old brother Bing in ''Half And Half'' is this and TearJerker.

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* The death of Rose's four-year-old brother Bing in ''Half And Half'' is this and TearJerker.TearJerker.
* After abandoning all her earthly possessions, along with her infant daughters, while fleeing the Japanese, Suyuan thinks in relief that at least she has nothing left to lose...just before realizing that her hair is falling out. This final shock pushes her over the DespairEventHorizon and she laughs and weeps while pulling out huge clumps of her own hair.
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* ''Voice From The Wall'' is quite disturbing, from the beginning when Lena is imagining all sorts of dangers that could happen to a child every day, to her watching her mother go mad from depression and pain, to the sounds of a mother abusing her daughter on the other side of her bedroom wall. And Lena witnesses these nightmares at only ten years old.

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* ''Voice From The Wall'' is quite disturbing, from the beginning when Lena is imagining all sorts of dangers that could happen to a child every day, to her watching her mother go mad from depression and pain, to the (imagined) sounds of a mother abusing her daughter on the other side (even though it turns out they were just playing loudly) of her bedroom wall. And Lena witnesses these nightmares at only ten years old.
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* The circumstances that drove An-Mei's mother to become a concubine.
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** The tragedy that Lena's infant brother was born ''without a brain.''
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* ''Voice From The Wall'' is quite disturbing, from the beginning when Lena is imagining all sorts of dangers that could happen to a child every day, to her watching her mother go mad from depression and pain, to the sounds of a mother abusing her daughter on the other side of her bedroom wall. And Lena witnesses these nightmares at only ten years old.
* Huang Taitai's treatment of Lindo in ''The Red Candle,'' when she refuses to sleep with her husband.
* The death of Rose's four-year-old brother Bing in ''Half And Half'' is this and TearJerker.

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