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quoted film critics, online commentators, and others in an article on Tuesday complaining that the Netflix adaptation of the Chinese science fiction noveldebuted on the streamer, which the Communist Party has banned in the country, last week.
“I think the discomfort I feel might precisely lie in the cultural differences. For instance, its localization, featuring people of different skin colors, is what netizens refer to as political correctness,” one of the film critics quoted in the article, Shi Wenxue, admitted. Shi said that the Netflix version “failed to accurately present his values and cosmology.”
The state outlet did not entirely condemn the television series, however, claiming that “internationalizing” the story was not “about deliberately denigrating China on an ideological level,” but rather making it possible for more people around the world to enjoy a Chinese story.did not address how Chinese social media users were accessing the Netflix show, given that it is not legal to subscribe to Netflix in China.
Some of the cast of the Netflix adaptation have addressed the changes to the novel, defending the inclusion of non-Chinese characters and people of “different skin colors.”
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