XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: rja.carnegie@gmail.com   
      
   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:   
   >>   
   >>> 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.   
      
   Perhaps the "Westerners" were embarrassed   
   by the contents on their own hurt feelings.   
      
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