Because of the Clarke’s World and Escape Pod podcasts I’ve already been exposed to a lot of asian and SE asian sci fi short stories. It’s pretty neat to see both the similarities and differences in how we do sci fi. For Boing Boing commenters who can read Chinese (because there’s always something lost in translation) - I’m curious - given the social structures in mainland China (both those shared with Chinese regardless of what country they live in and those specific to the mainland) - do you notice anything glaringly different about how they view the future? Eg: More or less likely to have a communist government in the year 22xx? More likely to have Chinese be the universal language in the future? (Chinese cursing while a fun workaround with the FCC was a pretty neat touch for Firefly since there are a LOT more Chinese people than non-Chinese people on Earth)
