Vagabonds (流浪苍穹) by Hao Jingfang (Chinese: 郝景芳; pinyin: Hǎo Jǐngfāng;. Head of Zeus. 2020 ISBN 978-1982143312.

Synthesis of two Mandarin Chinese novels, "Wandering Maearth" and "Return to Charon"
The novel follows the eighteen-year-old Luoying and her friends, who return to their home planet of Mars after five years on Earth.
A review in Strange Horizons says that "two key themes are the difficulty of understanding another culture from within one’s own, and the difficulty of understanding one’s own culture from within it"... - Wikpedia

This introspective sci-fi epic is tremendously moving in both an emotional and intellectual sense. It suggests that while people have homes and eat well in the kind of communism practiced on a future inhabited Mars, unlike on Earth where rapacious capitalism is still the ruling ideology, nonetheless, the Martian people are neither free nor happy.

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