From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 3/4/24 8:35 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Might it have run against the official line in some more subtle way?   
      
   The general consensus, though, has been that something other than   
   government censorship was going on with the Chinese works that were   
   disqualified. The committee made up a rule against "slate voting" out of   
   whole cloth.   
      
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