And the fact that she devoted the bulk of it to solidarity with the Hong Kong protesters is especially significant, because of the growing importance of Chinese audiences and fandom in sf, which exposes writers to potential career retaliation from an important translation market.
When the protests have been ground into the streets and Hong Kong has been thoroughly mainlandized, will it still feel like an accomplishment to have expressed “solidarity”?
And I wonder what Ng would make of this:
