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What is “proper” vs eg the others on this list? Honest question. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_science_fiction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chines

• colordrops 4y ago
  Did you read the wiki link? There's very little, and much of it is more kafka-esque political commentary rather than hard scifi. I don't know, I lived in China for 9 years, and scifi and fantasy media were highly discouraged by the party (as mentioned in the wiki link), and no one I knew had anything to recommend that was originally written in Chinese. When Three Body Problem came out, people went nuts. Every nerd and engineer in the country read it.
  • richardw 4y ago
    Thank you. It’s amazing that +1bn people with theoretical access to the world’s resources didn’t spontaneously create 10000 sci-fi books. Similar isolation the other way around. Societies are still so isolated (language, culture, political leanings) despite so much integration.
    • dTal 4y ago
      >theoretical access to the world’s resources There's the rub. Access to the world's cultural resources is highly limited in China. They've outright firewalled the internet.