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   Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:24:37 JST Håkan Geijer

   Hive mind: I once saw an article about the Three Body Problem book written by a (maybe) chinese person explaining why the online chinese right loved that book/trilogy for it's anti-feminist and militarist views. Does anyone have a link on hand?

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:43:33 JST Håkan Geijer

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     • lou.

     @michael_w_busch @einsiedlerspiel It got worse, iirc.

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     Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:43:34 JST Michael Busch

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     • lou.

     @einsiedlerspiel I read the English versions of "Three Body" and "Dark Forest".

     I did not read "Death's End" because of just how horrific the misogyny in "Dark Forest" is.

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     Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:43:35 JST Michael Busch

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     On that I have learned from the author and professor Chenchen Zhang: https://madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/the-three-body-problem-the-imperative-of-survival-and-the-misogyny-of-reactionary-rhetoric/ .

     She has also described how extensively the English translations of the trilogy were edited to remove sexist and racist elements from the Chinese originals.

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     lou. (einsiedlerspiel@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:43:35 JST lou.

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     @michael_w_busch

     And there's still plenty of that in the english translations

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     Håkan Geijer (hakan_geijer@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:43:46 JST Håkan Geijer

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     • lou.

     @einsiedlerspiel Yep. That's the one.

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     lou. (einsiedlerspiel@todon.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:43:47 JST lou.

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     @hakan_geijer

     this one maybe?

     https://madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/the-three-body-problem-the-imperative-of-survival-and-the-misogyny-of-reactionary-rhetoric/