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I haven't seen so much effort put into a set in years. This would decent if it wasn't so damn propogandistic. Of course the message is "communism hates science".
From the Netflix science-fiction series Three Body Problem
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True enough, I found the start of the book (and the flashbacks) to be like the writer projecting his grudge against it as he's an "intellectual" himself. But tbh it existing in the book to begin with sorta dispels the whole idea smug libs have that the cultural revolution is censored in China in the current year.
Seeing the Cultural Revolution as a mistake or at least some sort of regrettably poorly implemented policy is not exactly a rare take in China. The Gang of Four wasn't put on trial and convicted for nothing. Even if the CR started with good and reasonable intentions, putting judicial power to punish in the hands of mobs of students inevitably led to bad outcomes.
My mother watched as a gang of students assaulted her war hero father (my grandfather) for the "crime" of consorting with reactionaries. The reactionaries in question? The Soviet embassy. My grandpa helped facilitate cultural exchanges with the USSR before the Sino-Soviet split. Maybe there are facts I'm not aware of, but my grandpa was a die hard communist to his last breath so I don't think getting beaten in the street was something he had coming.
Lots of stories like this floating around if you ask people. Even Chinese people who support the CPC will acknowledge that the CR was bad times.
To various extents over time, I think so. I think the overwhelming social consensus regarding the CR in China is "let's not do that again".
In my opinion it was a good idea in principle that failed because of the opportunists that took advantage of the chaos. But yeah I'd agree, even Xi admits it.
I’m reading the book now, and honestly everything up to the present day is really good. Then we get to our modern day man, and I’ve never been more bored by a guy who sees a literal countdown occurring on analog photographs
Wang Miao was handled a bit better in the tencent adaptation, though they really picked the best actor for Da Shi (biased here though because I liked him in his past role as Chen Duxiu in that history of the formation of the CPC historical drama they made for CCTV).
Good to know :)