Re: Babel

On 3/25/2024 11:29 PM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

On 3/25/24 2:18 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Mad Hamish  <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> 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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I think I've heard that the issue isn't the current work but that
she's written stuff critical of China in the past.

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Which would be even WORSE because it would be punishing her for "reforming"
and finally writing something less critical.
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Whatever it was, it was sure a mess.
--scott

 As I noted elsewhere, the good news is that all this resulted in a lot of publicity for the book, which could well reach a wider audience than if it *had* won the Hugo.

Regardless of nigglined edge cases, the point remains. Russia has
been invaded many times in history, while the US mainland has not.
pt