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For me its even the plot. I mean scientific parts are very fine, but human parts are meh at best. [minor spoilers below] It is practically a racist book where
by saiya-jin 4y ago
For me its even the plot. I mean scientific parts are very fine, but human parts are meh at best.
[minor spoilers below]
It is practically a racist book where everybody non-chinese is evil, conspires to harm chinese in a comical villain fashion, should be killed, and is killed eventually. I get that 100 years ago similar literature was OK in the west too, but we moved our societies quite a bit since then.
- lgl 4y ago> I get that 100 years ago similar literature was OK in the west too, but we moved our societies quite a bit since then. 100 years ago? Today, the ratio of militaristic "America F** Yeah!" sci-fi vs every other language is probably 100/1 and the amount of times the Chinese and Russian are the ones portrayed as evil in that literature is literally orders of magnitude greater. Are those also racist books?
- zasdffaa 4y ago> Chinese and Russian are the ones portrayed as evil in that literature I've not noticed that. OTOH as a brit, the number of times I see us portrayed in American films as cold, unemotion, untrustworthy, manipulative, I could go on... Edit: on reflection that does seem to have died down a bit in recent years.
- Aeolun 4y agoI don’t think this is true at all. Especially the parts about the cultural revolution made me wonder how this was ever published in China at all. It was kind of refreshing to have someone else be the villain for once.