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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Netflix has a new tv series of "The Three-Body Problem"
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:46:29 -0500
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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.

Lynn