Waqas
@worqas
That's because American version completely misses the point of the books. Three Body Problem is about US-China rivalry: - Trisolaris is a dying empire (America) - It puts technological sanctions on Earth (China) to stop all scientific progress. - The dark forest is an analogy for the Thucydides trap. - The eventual solution is mutually assured destruction. There is so much more in the books that once you see it you can't unsee it. When Netflix announced the series I was really happy that Americans might see this rivalry from the Chinese perspective, but it was completely lost on Netflix. Was so disappointed when I saw the Netflix version.
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Señor Doggo
@fubuloubu
Is there any interview or material at all where Cixin Liu even hints at this interpretation?
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Waqas
@worqas
Yes, literally: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds
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Waqas
@worqas
Tho as a general rule, what authors specifically say about a work is not the final word on the meaning, value, and interpretation of the work. An author, just like the work, is a product of his time. For example, Bram Stoker did not intend Dracula to be a commentary about British fears of migrants from the East, nevertheless, that's exactly what it is.
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Señor Doggo
@fubuloubu
Thanks! The book being written over 20 years ago, before this was at least in the common US mindset (outside of war games), would suggest a kind of prescience for this kind of take, or at least a look into the mindset of how the CCP communicates its ambitions to Chinese society
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