Season 1, Episode 2: Frontiers of Science

Episode Info

• The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
• Part II, Chapters: 3 - 4
• Pages: 41 - 65
• Summary

Topics

• Exposition as Character Development
• Undiscovered Country Beyond Death & Translations
• Frontiers of Science
• Erdős Number, Character Connections and Kevin Bacon
• PLA Officers' Authority and Liberalism of China
• Reverse Psychology and Policeman Stereotypes

References

• Erdős–Bacon number
• Qian Zhongshu
• The Wandering Earth

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