A study on the international communication effect of Chinese Sci-Fi films and TV series based on LDA topic modeling: a case study of English reviews of the Chinese and American versions of The Three-Body Problem

Zhenhua Zeng; Jingyi Tian; Saifei Wu

doi:10.54254/2753-7102/2025.31064

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Received: 30 December 2025

Published: 4 January 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7102/2025.31064

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Zeng,Z.;Tian,J.;Wu,S. (2026). A study on the international communication effect of Chinese Sci-Fi films and TV series based on LDA topic modeling: a case study of English reviews of the Chinese and American versions of The Three-Body Problem. Advances in Social Behavior Research,17(1),39-53.

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