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  <title>Science Fiction from China: Eight Stories</title>
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  <read_at>Fri Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The main novelty of this volume is simply that the tales come from China, which had a flirtation with sci fi in the 70's and early 80's - all chronicled nicely in the preface.  The stories standing simply as sci fi, I wasn't deeply impressed, though the better ones I found to be &quot;Death of the World's First Robot&quot; which is essentially a fantasy story, and &quot;The Mirror Image of Earth&quot;.  These writers love dropping Asimov's 3 laws of robotics, which I suppose happened more during the American &quot;golden age&quot; as well.<br/>When you consider the themes being explored against the genre backdrop, we see the individual giving proper credit when working as a team, the role of a wife (or fantasy robot wife), and some examples of amusing anti-western propaganda, just as base as anti-eastern propaganda and sterotypes hat went on in our own history. ]]></body>
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