Three-Body Problem TV Series (By Tencent, CCTV) is going to release its first episode today! (2023/1/15)The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'Three-Body...
The anime has been very Not Great so far (I'm still gonna finish it) but this looks fantastic.
The opening was super depressing. Is it worth continuing?
The book is interesting because it's less about character development but more about the world-building and the political aspect in a galaxy scale. If you don't like utilitarian literature, you can skip it.
in terms of how cringe Liu's work is, if you can take on Philip K dick, you can probably read Liu
Is the book anti communist?
Liu Cixin was sent into the countryside during Cultural Revolution and probably what is called the ''lost generation'' which describes a generation of people from more priviledged strata of the pre-cultural revolution that got their lives interrupted during the period or people who gained prominence during this same period who got purged later when the CPC stepped in and retook control.
As if Liu is anti-communist, i think the best you can describe him is a patriot with left sympathy. You can read other work he wrote where he laments a lot about the fall of the USSR and how people in the country lives in absolute misery. There was a short story where Russia reinstated Communism and NATO started a hot war in order to topple the Russian government again.
Cultural Revolution is not viewed as a very positive period. Ironically, when people talks about how '' the CCP killed 120948323049234 billions people'', they are not referring to the cultural revolution but the Great Leap Forward where there was mismanagement of economic development after the sino-soviet split. However, the decentralized administration of the Cultural Revolution and the senseless fightings, killings and lynchings left a more impact in the population's psyche.
Like, was the cultural revolution actually killing physics professors?
As mentioned before, the problem with the Cultural Revolution was the vagueness how it is conducted (the idea of what constitutes counter-revolutionary and what is the appropriate punishment is left for the populace to decide). A lot of what happened is mostly anecdotal and the government didn't really tried to record the damages done in more local level and since this period is what is consider the dark period of the CPC, you won't have any mentions or very vague mentions of it. The cities vs countryside impact of the revolution is also very different. The struggle sessions were more intense in the urban area, my mother's side was sent to the countryside where there were small events happened. On my father side who stayed in the city, there were lynchings in the most intense period.
As mentioned before, most of the things sometime makes no real sense, my maternal grandma is a pretty pro-party person got bullied non stop by someone for not taking position on who should succeed Mao (at the moment it was Hua Guofeng vs Liu Shaoqi). So we can say a lot of the struggle session is just an excuse (examples can be like: you speak russian/or is a russian, you said Mao is not as great as the Sun, you said the sun has spots on the surface, you made a pun, you made a vague historical reference to an event that is vaguely associated to the contemporary history, etc.) for people to take revenge on people they don't like. So if a student who don't like a certain teacher and if you can find momentum, you can probably drag them into a struggle session to be punish.
Thanks for this context. I just started the series as a fan of sci-fi and found the opening scenes of the book both profound and hard to read(in a wow that’s terrible sense).
I wanted some greater context that wasn’t going to be found on Reddit and I really appreciate you taking your time to type out these responses.
Like any forum, I think even here can succumb to echos and the description of the cultural revolution were honestly terrifying. Lessons should be learned from past actions, rather than repeated blindly. This forum should really put more effort and focus on thoughtful responses rather than quick reactions and shitposting.
The book is interesting because it's less about character development but more about the world-building and the political aspect in a galaxy scale. If you don't like utilitarian literature, you can skip it.
in terms of how cringe Liu's work is, if you can take on Philip K dick, you can probably read Liu
Liu Cixin was sent into the countryside during Cultural Revolution and probably what is called the ''lost generation'' which describes a generation of people from more priviledged strata of the pre-cultural revolution that got their lives interrupted during the period or people who gained prominence during this same period who got purged later when the CPC stepped in and retook control.
As if Liu is anti-communist, i think the best you can describe him is a patriot with left sympathy. You can read other work he wrote where he laments a lot about the fall of the USSR and how people in the country lives in absolute misery. There was a short story where Russia reinstated Communism and NATO started a hot war in order to topple the Russian government again.
Cultural Revolution is not viewed as a very positive period. Ironically, when people talks about how '' the CCP killed 120948323049234 billions people'', they are not referring to the cultural revolution but the Great Leap Forward where there was mismanagement of economic development after the sino-soviet split. However, the decentralized administration of the Cultural Revolution and the senseless fightings, killings and lynchings left a more impact in the population's psyche.
As mentioned before, the problem with the Cultural Revolution was the vagueness how it is conducted (the idea of what constitutes counter-revolutionary and what is the appropriate punishment is left for the populace to decide). A lot of what happened is mostly anecdotal and the government didn't really tried to record the damages done in more local level and since this period is what is consider the dark period of the CPC, you won't have any mentions or very vague mentions of it. The cities vs countryside impact of the revolution is also very different. The struggle sessions were more intense in the urban area, my mother's side was sent to the countryside where there were small events happened. On my father side who stayed in the city, there were lynchings in the most intense period.
As mentioned before, most of the things sometime makes no real sense, my maternal grandma is a pretty pro-party person got bullied non stop by someone for not taking position on who should succeed Mao (at the moment it was Hua Guofeng vs Liu Shaoqi). So we can say a lot of the struggle session is just an excuse (examples can be like: you speak russian/or is a russian, you said Mao is not as great as the Sun, you said the sun has spots on the surface, you made a pun, you made a vague historical reference to an event that is vaguely associated to the contemporary history, etc.) for people to take revenge on people they don't like. So if a student who don't like a certain teacher and if you can find momentum, you can probably drag them into a struggle session to be punish.
Thanks for this context. I just started the series as a fan of sci-fi and found the opening scenes of the book both profound and hard to read(in a wow that’s terrible sense).
I wanted some greater context that wasn’t going to be found on Reddit and I really appreciate you taking your time to type out these responses.
Like any forum, I think even here can succumb to echos and the description of the cultural revolution were honestly terrifying. Lessons should be learned from past actions, rather than repeated blindly. This forum should really put more effort and focus on thoughtful responses rather than quick reactions and shitposting.