What Chinese Outrage Over ‘3 Body Problem’ Says About China

The first five minutes of the Netflix series “3 Body Problem” were hard to watch.

I tried not to shut my eyes at the coldblooded beating of a physics professor at the height of the

in 1967. By the end of it, he was dead, with blood and gruesome wounds all over his head and body. His daughter, also a physicist, watched the public execution. She went on to lose hope in humanity.

I made myself sit through this violent…