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.
I've read about half the book and watched the first episode. From my recollection of the book, the tv show actually is fairly true to it. The book doesn't really shy away from being pretty critical of the CR, at least in the English translation. I think it's not too much of an exaggeration of historical fact, it was a fairly bleak time in history. I don't think many Chinese communists would argue that no mistakes were made at the time.