Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Carnegie Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Babel Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:30:10 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <13meuitun62oknh73e03ejnst0s0ehe6fe@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:30:12 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="16832a3f6a7c129d2a5fda7d6032fb20"; logging-data="1733489"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+YxKGK2g4ENTQ7zHjV+j1IoEmlDTAL8uk=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:n8pj0EIXYJb34e6drQmcsAOkIno= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2249 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.