{"id":62750,"date":"2024-03-22T17:51:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/22\/netflix-3-body-problem-divides-viewers-china"},"modified":"2024-03-22T17:51:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:51:53","slug":"flat-and-shallow-netflixs-3-body-problem-divides-viewers-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62750","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flat and shallow\u2019: Netflix\u2019s 3 Body Problem divides viewers in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-episode series based on Liu Cixin novels triggers accusations of \u2018Americanisation\u2019 of a Chinese story<\/p>\n<p>Netflix\u2019s big-budget adaptation of Three-Body Problem, a series of novels by the Chinese author Liu Cixin, has divided opinion on Chinese social media.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-episode series, 3 Body Problem, was released in full on Netflix on Thursday. It is based on the first book in Liu\u2019s trilogy, an ambitious sci-fi series spanning civilisation from the 1960s to the end of humanity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/22\/netflix-3-body-problem-divides-viewers-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight-episode series based on Liu Cixin novels triggers accusations of \u2018Americanisation\u2019 of a Chinese storyNetflix\u2019s big-budget adaptation of Three-Body Problem, a series of novels by the Chinese author Liu Cixin, has divided opinion on Chinese social &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,71,238,509,520,519,518,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-media","category-netflix","category-television","category-television-radio","category-tv-streaming","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62751,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62750\/revisions\/62751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}