I've been curious about the book because i saw some people talking about it, another urge after the netflix show, so went to check a little the book.
I haven't read much about chinese revolution, so i became intrigued, the cultural revolution was really like that or it was exaggerated?
i sometimes watch a guy that lives on china, he says the current standing of the people today is that thr cr was a mistake because it destroyed many historical artifacts.
well, the post became more about the cultural revolution than the scifi piece itself.
Not sure how it's portrayed in the Netflix series as I've only gotten around to starting the Tencent series now.
IIRC Chinese readers thought the book did a decent job at portraying the cultural revolution. Of course anti-communist Netflix and Hollywood TV producers will show what they want to to present a certain narrative.
I have read the books (actually just the first two I should finish the series) and watched both the netflix and tencent series and the scenes depicting the cultural revolution are basically identical in all three right down to the dialogue.
I've read like 5 pages of the first book, and the initial scenes are even worse than on the show.