Unfortunately the only relationship between this and The Man in The High Castle is the premise that the Japanese won WW2. The standard of writing and storytelling falls pretty short of it's alleged spiritual predecessor.
The book itself is bursting with ideas about what a Japanese victory meant - many interesting, such as how the Japanese "solved" disease, or the slavish loyalty of the Empire's servants and the paranoid layers of secret police. The problem is that these ideas seem to be passed very quickly by and none of them are ever explored in any depth. The same applies to what passes for character development - one of the protagonists gets pulled across the conflicting layers of security apparatus and yet somehow seems to end up largely unchanged despite occasional hints that she's guilty about something.
The story itself seems to lurch from situation to situation with convenient get-outs to every downturn in the fortunes of the protagonists. It's encrypted and none of the security forces can break it? ok, I'll just hack it in 30 seconds. We need a 50 foot military mecha that probably is worth billions of dollars? Sure I know a mech pilot who's keeping one lying around that the army were happy to let her keep.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this book's popularity is very much centred on the American audience, who may get more of a kick out of the what-if's of a Sino-American world. If you aren't enamoured with Americana, you may just see too many of the cracks in this book to enjoy it. Its not terrible, but there's a lot better out there.
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