Sujet : Re: Babel
De : rja.carnegie (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Robert Carnegie)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.written rec.arts.sf.fandomDate : 08. Mar 2024, 11:30:12
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On 05/03/2024 17:48, Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 3/5/2024 12:38 PM, Paul S Person wrote:
On 5 Mar 2024 01:35:28 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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So, I am reading Rebecca Kuang's _Babel_ to see just what it was that the
Hugo Committee may have objected to, and I find it extremely pro-Chinese.
It is strongly against British imperialism and against the Opium War, and
the Chinese government of the time may not have been very strong but was
determined.
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If her previous works were anti-Chinese, I don't know. But this seems
sufficiently against that that I would expect it would more than make up
for that.
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Perhaps you are not considering how a /Communist Goverment/ might feel
about a novel extolling the virtues of the non-communist past.
Seeing as a Chinese edition has been published, in China, I don't think
they objected to the book. Its disqualification seems to have been at
the hands of a clueless and craven committee of Westerners.
Perhaps the "Westerners" were embarrassed
by the contents on their own hurt feelings.
Re: Babel