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Subject: Re: Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem"
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On 3/25/2024 3:46 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 3/25/2024 1:19 PM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
>> On 23/03/2024 03:47, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 3/22/2024 4:12 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem".  I watched 
>>>> the first twenty minutes last night.  The brutality of the Chinese 
>>>> Cultural Revolution was horrendous.  I will be watching more then 
>>>> reading the first book in the series that I bought a few months ago.
>>>>     https://www.netflix.com/title/81024821
>>>> and
>>>>     https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/0765382032/
>>>>
>>>> Lynn
>>>
>>> Ok, the Netflix version of the book is not available in China.  I was 
>>> wondering about that.
>>>
>>> https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/03/22/netflixs-3-body-problem-spawns-anger-in-china-n3785226
>>>
>>> And order of events in the book are different in the Chinese version 
>>> and the English version.  That is sad.
>>
>> Are you saying that the book is different
>> in thr teo languages, as well as the TV shows?
> 
> Apparently so according to the article.
> 
> I talked to a 23 year old Chinese person about it over the weekend.  He 
> has watched the Netflix episodes already and found it good.  He said 
> that he does not remember the murder of the physics professor by the Red 
> Guard in the Chinese version of the first book.  He thinks that was 
> taken out by the Chinese censors.

Reportedly this scene is creating a lot of hubbub in China. The
authorities would rather downplay the Cultural Revolution.

It does not appear in the first episode of the Chinese TV
series.

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