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   From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   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:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   The Opium Wars and in particular, the destruction of the Summer Palace,   
   are a staple of current Chinese criticism of the West. The period is   
   known as 'The Century of Humiliation'.   
      
   pt   
      
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