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Three-Body
三体
2023 · TV series · 43 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Liu Cixin
DramaMysteryScience FictionFantasy
Nanotechnology researcher Wang Miao is taken to the Joint Operations Center by police officer Shi Qiang, who's investigating the mysterious suicide wave among scientists worldwide. He is recruited to sneak into an organization called the Frontiers of Science to help the investigation. When Wang Miao is contacted by the leader of the organization, Shen Yufei, she introduces him to a sophisticated VR video game called Three-Body, but soon he discovers that it's more than just a game.
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> when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one?
Three Body Problem
Three Body is a science fiction television series and I think sci-fi often involves complex vocabulary and abstract concepts, making it a tough choice for language learners
Highly recommend Three-Body, the Chinese version of the Three-Body Problem. I enjoyed it much more than the Netflix adaptation, much closer to the source material, and more of a slow burn. Episodes are available on YouTube with subs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-UO8jbrIoM).
I just found out that around the same time the Chinese also released a 30 episode version as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Body
I was so confused, because I tried an episode of "Three-Body" on Amazon Prime. This is the Chinese TV adaptation which seemed like a one-for-one adaptation of the book. It seems that very few people are aware of this series though.
I didn't realize there is also now a Netflix series. I saw the promo on Netflix, but I thought they just licensed that same Chinese-made series. I'll have to check out the Netflix adaptation to see if it's more accessible than the first-mover.
Review of "Three-Body" here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/arts/television/three-body-review.html
I know it has something like 30 episodes, so I had to look; it appears to only cover the first book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Body .
"Silent Spring" is also a key theme in The Three-Body Problem. There's a Netflix adaptation coming later this year, but if you search around, there's a recent Chinese version (subtitles are available) that follows the book very closely: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20242042/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_three-body
Anyone got good Mandarin content to recommend? Have a goal to be fluent by 40...
Am watching Three Body but the dialogue is sometimes a little tricky to follow.
When I think about how I assimilated Japanese from Anime, the reason it's so doable (IMO) is that the language used is reasonably straightforward and they actually talk quite slowly. I found this once you watch movies in Japanese and noticed it was harder to pick out what people were saying.