#i mean it makes sense since the story is based on 1930s-1940s china

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i’ve come to the conclusion that in many ways, r.f. kuang’s the poppy war is a quintessentially modernist text

#esp when it comes to the contact between the nikarans and the hesperians #thematically it tracks with several key modernist concerns #like folk tradition vs. technological development #emphasis on individual experience #depictions of war and violence #i mean it makes sense since the story is based on 1930s-1940s china #the poppy war #rf kuang