Night Watch (Discworld, volume 29/City Watch, volume 6) by Terry Pratchett

[james_davis_nicoll]

A time-displaced cop struggles to protect history and the glorious revolution from a time-displaced psychopath, as well as from the cop's own better nature.

Night Watch (Discworld, volume 29/City Watch, volume 6) by Terry Pratchett

Comments

[ba_munronoe]

I eventually got rather pissed over the fact that the Agatean Empire went from being clearly a far more civilized country than Ahnk-Morepork (not to mention vastly more powerful) to being a place backwards enough that "reforming" nobles ape all things Moreporkian and apparently there's a *Communist revolution coming?

[scott_sanford]

To be sure, all of those things were true of China at various times.

But I think it's a mistake to try to read Interesting Times as riffing off of the real China when it's so obviously riffing off of low-information English Orientalist fantasies about China.