I’ve been curious about the book because i saw some people talking about it, another urge after the netflix show, so went to check a little the book.
I haven’t read much about chinese revolution, so i became intrigued, the cultural revolution was really like that or it was exaggerated?
i sometimes watch a guy that lives on china, he says the current standing of the people today is that thr cr was a mistake because it destroyed many historical artifacts.
well, the post became more about the cultural revolution than the scifi piece itself.
The CR scenes in the show are taken almost directly from the books, in some cases literally word-for-word.
Liu demonizes the CR because he had a really shit time during that period. Netflix just copied what he wrote.
He’s not old enough to remember CR that well. He was born in 1963.
From the English version post-script:
Regardless of whether his memories are “real” or invented, he clearly had a negative personal experience of the period.