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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Mad Hamish   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.   
   >   
   >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.   
      
   Which would be even WORSE because it would be punishing her for "reforming"   
   and finally writing something less critical.   
      
   Whatever it was, it was sure a mess.   
   --scott   
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