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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Babel
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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.