the three body problem the wandering earth

Yu Jinlong, a cultural critic based in Beijing, told the Global Times on Sunday that the work's huge success is based on the background of China's brilliant achievements in the aerospace industry and that it portrays China's specific type of heroism. Cultural critics told the Global Times that the craze reflects the unique heroism of the Chinese people, human's strong desire to explore the unknown universe and concern for the future of mankind. With China's increasingly comprehensive national strength, especially in science and technology, China will have more fantastic sci-fi works besides The Wandering Earth and Three-Body Problem, Shang Yu, deputy director of the Yunnan People's Publishing House, told the Global Times on Sunday.įrom books to animated series airing on China's popular video sharing platform Bilibili to the new live-action TV drama, as well as an upcoming English adaptation produced by Netflix, the wide influence of the Three-body Problem IP has spread to the entire world. Shi pointed out that under the influence of The Three-Body Problem, more and more sci-fi related film and TV series have been released in recent years, with several of them gaining critical praise. The Wandering Earth, currently the fifth highest-grossing film in China, is also an adaptation of a short story from the Hugo Award-winning author. 'The Three-Body TV series will be like the movie The Wandering Earth, becoming a benchmark for sci-fi TV series that forces filmmakers to continue to climb to higher peaks,' he said. Shi Wenxue, a cultural critic based in Beijing, told the Global Times on Sunday that looking at the current viewership data on Tencent Video and the heated discussion on Chinese social media, the Three-Body TV series is sure to be a hit. Many Chinese netizens commented that the story was largely faithful to the original work. The hashtag for the 30-episode series had earned more than 130 million views on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo as of Sunday. Three-Body, the Chinese TV adaptation of Liu Cixin's Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, debuted on Chinese Central Television 8 and Tencent Video during prime time on Sunday night.

Promotional material for Three-Body Photo: Courtesy of Tencent Video

The three body problem the wandering earth