Наш человек в Шанхае

Циксин Лью, "Проблема трех тел" это годная добротная НТР-овская фантастика, вместе с историями про гонения на ученых, секретными антеннами в излучении которых поджариваются птицы, сюжетом "За миллион лет до нашей эры" и всем прочим.

А вот занятное, про сено-солому:

“Have you heard the joke about the Army of Sichuan?” Von Neumann took out a thick cigar, bit off the end, and lit it. “Some soldiers were being drilled, but because they had no education, they couldn’t even follow the drill instructor’s simple orders to march LEFT -RIGHT-LEFT. So the instructor came up with a solution: He had every soldier wear a straw shoe on the left foot and a cloth shoe on the right . When they marched, he shouted”— here he switched to a Sichuan accent—“ STRAW-CLOTH-STRAW-CLOTH.… That’s the kind of soldier we need. Except we need thirty million of them.” Hearing this modern joke, Wang knew that the man before him wasn’t a program but a real person, and almost certainly Chinese / emph. mine - T/.