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* BlackIsBiggerinBed: Catherine and Dogu, though Wingrove tastefully avoids giving us length and circumference.
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* BlackIsBiggerinBed: BlackIsBiggerInBed: Catherine and Dogu, though Wingrove tastefully avoids giving us length and circumference.
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* DeathIsDramatic: While [[spoiler:Wang Sau-Ieyan, T'ang of City Africa]] is a bastard, he knows how to die. Since he so naturally acts [[spoiler:like a T'ang]] until the very end, the enemy soldiers find it almost impossible to fire at him.
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* DeathIsDramatic: While [[spoiler:Wang Sau-Ieyan, T'ang of City Africa]] is a bastard, he knows how to die. Since he so naturally acts [[spoiler:like a T'ang]] until the very end, the enemy soldiers find it almost impossible to fire at him. Another example is an early gang leader, who honorably commits suicide as the enforcers breach his sanctum (and even the enforcers agree his death had such dignity, they will be forced to lie about it to paint him as a coward in their reports).
** Subverted, in some cases - the military rebels tend to die with much more realistic "heat of battle" deaths. [[spoiler: [=DeVore's=]]] first apparent death and [[spoiler: Stefan Lehmann's]] actual death both feature a single blow to the head that kill them outright, with minimal drama or climactic fight scenes. In both cases, this comes after months or years of protracted urban fighting between full-sized armies.
** Subverted, in some cases - the military rebels tend to die with much more realistic "heat of battle" deaths. [[spoiler: [=DeVore's=]]] first apparent death and [[spoiler: Stefan Lehmann's]] actual death both feature a single blow to the head that kill them outright, with minimal drama or climactic fight scenes. In both cases, this comes after months or years of protracted urban fighting between full-sized armies.
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* DragonAscendant: Several examples, perhaps most notable being Stefan Lehmann - he starts off as Howard DeVore's lieutenant, and then amasses enough military and technological resources to present a major threat against the T'ang. By the end of his plot arc, the T'ang's forces grudgingly admit he has superior fighter jets.
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* DragonAscendant: Several examples, perhaps most notable being Stefan Lehmann - he starts off as Howard DeVore's [=DeVore's=] lieutenant, and then amasses enough military and technological resources to present a major threat against the T'ang. By the end of his plot arc, the T'ang's forces grudgingly admit he has superior fighter jets.
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Added White Hair Black Heart, Dragon Ascendant entries for Stefan Lehmann. Clarified Pinyin pronunciations.
* DragonAscendant: Several examples, perhaps most notable being Stefan Lehmann - he starts off as Howard DeVore's lieutenant, and then amasses enough military and technological resources to present a major threat against the T'ang. By the end of his plot arc, the T'ang's forces grudgingly admit he has superior fighter jets.
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** David Wingrove explicitly states in the appendix that he knows of the more commonly used pinyin today, the use of which he is well familiar with, but that he prefers the Wade-Giles romanization for this series. Mostly because the Wade-Giles was designed with English speakers in mind and so sounds closer to the actual pronunciation of the words even when the reader tries to pronounce the words with the English pronunciation of the letters. Some of the Pinyin letters are mapped to sounds that would confuse a westerner (i.e. q sounds like ''ts'').
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** David Wingrove explicitly states in the appendix that he knows of the more commonly used pinyin today, the use of which he is well familiar with, but that he prefers the Wade-Giles romanization for this series. Mostly because the Wade-Giles was designed with English speakers in mind and so sounds closer to the actual pronunciation of the words even when the reader tries to pronounce the words with the English pronunciation of the letters. Some of the Pinyin letters are mapped to sounds that would confuse a westerner (i.e. q sounds like ''ch'' and c sounds like ''ts'').
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* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Stefan Lehmann, who is a person with albinism and also fulfills RedEyesTakeWarning. As an ascendant military rival to the T'ang, he is shown to be ruthless and willing to use brutal methods regardless of the human cost. In one sequence of urban fighting, Lehmann uses a swaddled infant as a noncombatant cover, in order to eliminate an enemy gunman.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Or ''Go'', in this case, referred to as wei-chi/weiqi.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Or ''Go'', in this case, referred to as wei-chi/weiqi.wei-chi[=/=]TabletopGame/{{weiqi}}.
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Dewicked trope
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: From the second novel and onward, there is a helpful character list added
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* LaResistance: A group of European businessmen and officers, but also the ''Ping Tiao,'' rebels from the lower city levels
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* OneWorldOrder: Chung Kuo
* PenalColony: The convenient use for the levels in the Net.
* ProfessionalKiller: Jyan and Chen, definitely of the "poor hitman" side of the trope
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: And [=DeVore=] is a special kind of rapist.
* RebelliousPrincess: Jelka Tolonen borders on this, because of the ArrangedMarriage trope above
* PenalColony: The convenient use for the levels in the Net.
* ProfessionalKiller: Jyan and Chen, definitely of the "poor hitman" side of the trope
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: And [=DeVore=] is a special kind of rapist.
* RebelliousPrincess: Jelka Tolonen borders on this, because of the ArrangedMarriage trope above
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* LaResistance: A group of European businessmen and officers, but also the ''Ping Tiao,'' rebels from the lower city levels
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* SendInTheClones: DeVore's invasion from space.
* SiblingYinYang: Li Han Ch'in and Li Yuan, sons of one of the T'ang Lords
* SiblingYinYang: Li Han Ch'in and Li Yuan, sons of one of the T'ang Lords
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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Those born in the Net.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Endless characters, mostly women and girls; this series' quantity of rape and murder has aroused the ire of many reviewers and has lost Wingrove readers, as he mentioned in an interview decades ago.
