What’s so Chinese About Science Fiction from China? - JSTOR Daily
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Commentators have latched onto science fiction to explain all manner of social phenomena in China, from unemployment and the economy to air pollution.
    • bobs_guns@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      17·
      6 days ago

      chinese science fiction is popular not just for the literary quality of its translations, but because it provides an accessible way for people to understand china better

  • Ozmanthius@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Isn’t three body problem the one with self loathing Chinese author ? Or an I confusing it with something else ?

    • graymess [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      61·
      5 days ago

      Only read the first book years ago, but it portrays the Cultural Revolution as pure evil and the plot involves a scientist teaming up with a loose cannon cop to go kill some terrorists with his new invention. Some interesting alien civilization concepts, but I don’t know. I don’t get the hype.

        • CascadeOfLight [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          15·
          5 days ago

          It was an ultraleft deviation to be sure, but it also destroyed all sorts of such horrific, backward cultural institutions as foot binding. It was a social movement emerging from the particular contradictions of revolutionary China - which was recognised as going too far, and was ultimately reined in by other communists within the same society. And if your bar is low enough to call it “evil” then you must run out of adjectives to describe literally anything the US has ever done.

        • amemorablename@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          3·
          5 days ago

          Why? I’m genuinely lost on this point. My main POV into the cultural revolution was the documentary How Yukong Moved the Mountains and it seemed like a lot of good had been done. I have since come across the perspective that it had excesses, but calling it evil seems like such a pendulum swing for me, I don’t know how to understand it at all.

    • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Despite the author criticizing the Cultural Revolution, he is surprisingly based. He supports socialism and the CPC, he understands that Taiwan and Xinjiang belong to China, and he criticized the neoliberal Hong Kong protestors.