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On 3/25/24 2:18 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Mad Hamish  <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> 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.
>>
>> I think I've heard that the issue isn't the current work but that
>> she's written stuff critical of China in the past.
> 
> Which would be even WORSE because it would be punishing her for "reforming"
> and finally writing something less critical.
> 
> Whatever it was, it was sure a mess.
> --scott

As I noted elsewhere, the good news is that all this resulted in a lot 
of publicity for the book, which could well reach a wider audience than 
if it *had* won the Hugo.

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Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn, @eleeper@mastodon.social
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