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with Trench in a last-ditch effort to avoid bankruptcy, and Sun Tzu uses Roman to help compete with a company called
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have been mostly positive. Critics praised it for its strong characters, visual intensity and experimentation, and social commentary on the modern financial industry and China-US relations, while others criticized it for being too dark and violent. Prominent reviewers drew comparisons to
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after "he sensed a growing national anxiety about China's hegemonic rise, and I wanted to transform the ancient text into something that explored this anxiety." He references the formation of China's first sovereign foreign wealth fund, the
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described the book as "a melodrama of chiaroscuro, with red surging onto
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that he had not seen similar violence after an opening since the 1970s and attributed it to the politically charged nature of the graphic novel and its images.
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