What cyberpunk fiction deals with the signficance and effects on the world of T'ang dynasty poetry, Galois theory, table manners, or menstrual taboos?

None. We conclude either that these are not parts of human culture, or that the distinctive concern of science fiction, of which cyberpunk is a rather stylized subset, is not culture in general, but technology and the future, especially the future as shaped by technology. More.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.