![]() ![]() Rin may be good at waging war, but like Mao she is completely inept as a post-war leader. The violence of the war is surpassed only by the misery and famine that the war leaves in its wake. Nezha and his father are stand-ins for Chiang Kai-Shek and the Nationalists. Rin is a stand-in for Communist leader Mao Zedong, coming from the peasant class and leading a revolution of the peasants against the aristocracy. ![]() The plot parallels that of the Chinese Civil War. In The Burning God, the series reaches its emotional and violent climax. Rin is somehow a sympathetic character while simultaneously committing the most atrocious of war crimes. The characters are all deeply flawed, and the main protagonist, Rin, is an anti-hero of the highest caliber. She has reinvented grimdark fantasy with her magical world that parallels the real-world events in Chinese history, most notably the Opium Wars, World War II, and the Communist Revolution. Kuang has accomplished with the Poppy War trilogy. Kuang’s epic finale to her Chinese history-inspired Poppy War series, which began with The Poppy War and continued with The Dragon Republic. ![]()
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