[klik99]

Yes the books are excellent. I am American but lived in China for a while and my wife is Chinese so I've seen a lot of Chinese media so familiar with many tropes. It is definetely Chinese, but it is not generic scifi with the usual tropes. I gave a copy to my dad and he read the whole trilogy faster than I could finish and was fascinated by the Chinese perspectives and the fact that it was critical of the cultural revolution. I typically prefer good characters over hard scifi, and my main criticism is the characters are not well written, they are mostly walking tropes, so it should speak to the quality of the books that I loved them despite that.

They are good, the themes are fascinating (and I actually disagree with many of it's viewpoints, but still love the books) and the scenarios are really well written with it sounding too wild and crazy but once you learn more about what is happening it makes sense. The alien world is like something out of Stapledons Star Maker.

I'm very picky about scifi, but this is highly recommended.