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Go Spotting: Chinese Military Fantasy Novels

An article in the May 23 issue of the magazine Foreign Policy entitled "Pulp Liberation Army" surveys the strange and terrifying underground world of Chinese military fantasy novels. One such novel, 2066: Red Star Over America, "portrays the United States in the throes of a Cultural Revolution, where bands of marauding U.S. students fight battles in the country's ravaged countryside. China is the world's top superpower, and an earthquake has sunk Japan, erasing it from the map. The protagonist, a Chinese Go player and diplomatic envoy, tries to return civilization to a crumbling United States." Go player to the rescue! Read the full article here. Thank you Matthew Curran for sharing this.