Re: A view of powerful cities in dated history, as seen through Science Fiction - A C Clarke

In article <[email protected]>,
David Lesher  <[email protected]> wrote:
>a425couple <[email protected]> writes:
>
>
>>It is interesting to me how he totally skips over
>>China, India, or any Middle Eastern power, yet to be.
>>But then, this was just one sentence in a fictional
>>story.
>
>When written, how economically big & public was China?
>And India was just a possession of the British empire.

CE was published in '53, at which point the partition of India had been
done, and both India & Pakistan were independent nations.  Of course it
was written earler, but not that much earlier.

Of course, along with China, all three were in something of a mess and
it couldn't have been clear if or when they would get themselves sorted out.
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