![]() This period left a scar on the country still felt today. Millions of people were killed by Chairman Mao’s followers, and multiple civil wars broke out between Communist factions, all claiming to be true Marxists, and the all rest were imitators. ![]() The Cultural Revolution saw the wort of humanity rise to the surface. As young as he was, he would have witnessed the violence of the Cultural Revolution and was in fact sent back to the family’s ancestral home in Henan to avoid the worst of it. As a child, his parents worked in the mines of Shanxi province. Liu Cixin was born in China during the 1960’s, just before the advent of the Cultural Revolution, when Chairman Mao Zedong was at the height of his power. Part one of a trilogy, the novel is not just a good read, but an important one as well. The Three-Body Problem, written by Liu Cixin, is a work of Chinese science-fiction. But science-fiction does not belong to the West alone. Jules Verne was a pioneer with The War of the Worlds, William Gibson created the modern vision of virtual reality with Neuromancer, and George Lucas will go down as one of the most influential filmmakers of all time for creating the universe of Star Wars. ![]() ![]() Since the inception of the genre, American and English authors have dominated the field, telling the stories we all know. Readers will be forgiven for believing that all science-fiction originates in the West. ![]()
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