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Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu Tencent series review by Anna Chen

Three Body Problem review: the politics of novel, Netflix and Tencent

How did the Three Body Problem work as a book, a Netflix series and a Chinese Tencent series? That’s a Three Body Problem in itself.
Netflix’s eight-part series 3 Body Problem had the opportunity to dramatise Book One of the Hugo Award-winning blockbuster series and illuminate it through a western lens. Instead, they turned it into a banal addition to the multiple-body of China-hate currently pervading every nook and cranny of the culture 

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A Permanent Reservoir of Scapegoats: how racism drives the geopolitics of China’s rise

Anna Chen – 6 October 2021, Racism No Cold War kindly invited me to speak at their online event on 6th October but sound problems rendered my contribution pretty unlistenable — apologies. I am posting the text of my speech here and will try to re-record soon it along with a poem. A PERMANENT RESERVOIR

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