You read a pop sci fi book and are surprised when you get pop sci fi? Chinese culture tends to place much more emphasis on prose in general in pop books in my experience but you picked one of the worst examples of that. That series is very strongly influenced by western sci fi culture so I find it really funny that you use it as an example of chinese culture being worse.

> black&white mindset that modern free world grew away long time ago

Don't even know what to say. I am not sure we live in the same world lol.

I feel like someone who wasn't familar with Chinese history or culture would miss a lot of what was happening in that book. A lot happens that isn't directly explained.

Also depends if you read the version with the cultural revolution scenes in the beginning or in the middle.

> Shallow characters, very pro-china and anti-whole-western-world black&white mindset that modern free world grew away long time ago.

I think you missed the latest news.