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I say yes, it’s on similar level to Lord of the Rings and Dune for 20th century

1. it truly is an ORIGINAL piece of work, it isn’t a derivitive of something that came before (like how Lord of the Rings basically created the racial system in all modern RPG or Dune with intergalactic wars

2. it has the SCALE of which is on a legendary level of creativity

3. it has strong philosophies to back it up

4. super well researched and crazy world building

It’s starting to gain influence through other media like the netflix series.

Honestly the only other series that is a contender is Harry Potter

I’m not gonna even put Game of Thrones here cuz someone cant be assed to complete it

Now what’s interesting is: the viet version must be translated from the Chinese version, the cultural revolution stuff is placed somewhere in the middle.

The english version starts with that chapter first.

By comparing two versions line by line. The viet version ( likely derived from the chinese version) omitted ALOT of details: they completely left out the naming aspect such as Beijing city, Chairman Mao, names of real life scientists. They also left out all the gory details and skimmed past the cultural revolution stuff. Sometimes entire paragraphs are omitted, not sentences.