Earth civilization
Earth civilization means humanity as a whole, the civilization of the third planet, whose reach and fragility Liu Cixin takes as the subject of the entire series.
Earth civilization means humanity itself: the single technological civilization that has grown up on the third planet of the Solar System, from agriculture through the Industrial Age to the Information Age and the Atomic Age. It opens inside one of civilization's harshest self-inflicted wounds, China's Cultural Revolution, where the young astrophysicist Ye Wenjie watches her father persecuted, and moves to an early twenty-first century of particle accelerators, nanomaterials research, and secret Cold War installations such as Red Coast Base. Human civilization's reach, its fragility, and its capacity for both cruelty and wonder are measured across this span.
How far into The Three-Body Problem have you read?
Set your place and this page rewrites itself to exactly that point. Nothing ahead of you will show.