Tencent offers up ‘Three-Body Problem’ for its first global launch of a Chinese comic


By Pei LiBrenda Goh

The comic series, based on Liu Cixin's Hugo Award-winning book about a secret organisation that collaborates with hostile aliens to take over Earth, was made available on Tencent's WeComics platform from Nov 23 in Chinese, English and Thai. — Reuters

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI: Tencent Holdings has launched an online comic book adaptation of The Three-Body Problem, China's most popular science fiction novel – its first such global launch in multiple languages as it seeks to drum up overseas interest for Chinese content.

The comic series, based on Liu Cixin's Hugo Award-winning book about a secret organisation that collaborates with hostile aliens to take over Earth, was made available on Tencent's WeComics platform from Nov 23 in Chinese, English and Thai.

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