A drama about coming contact with aliens catapults us back to 1966 China, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Though Liu Cixin’s revered trilogy has been westernised for TV, it dares to trace the scars of the Cultural Revolution.
Though Liu Cixin ’s revered trilogy has been westernised for TV, it dares to trace the scars of the Cultural Revolution . A drama about coming contact with aliens catapults us back to China in 1966, at the height of the Cultural Revolution : we see an eminent physicist viciously attacked by zealots before a howling crowd. As incongruous as it seems, this moment is central to understanding the book on which the show is based.
Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem has been a multimillion-seller at home and abroad, earning praise from Barack Obama and others
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