Taking a week of medical leave and got excited to settle in with 3BP on Netflix only to find out, that’s NEXT month.

Picked up the books instead…

How? How did the Chinese government allow this to be published? There HAS to be some kind of story there…

Reading up on it, the opening chapters that are so highly critical of Mao’s Cultural Revolution were always intended to be the opening, but were moved to be later in the book in China.

So maybe that’s it? The censors just didn’t read the whole thing?

  • cheribbit@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I have not read this book myself but it is pretty funny the kind of books that are allowed to be published in China. Books on censorship, dictatorship… I literally saw 1984 being advertised with the line “one more person reading 1984 means one more person who’s free” like who are you lying to 😭 in CHINA?!

    Absolutely nothing that criticize the current leadership or reveal things they want to keep under the wrap though like the cultural genocide of the Uyghurs.