Format:
x, 370 pages
ISBN:
9780231204439
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9780231204422
Series Statement:
Global Chinese culture
Content:
Fear of Seeing traces the new wave of Chinese science fiction s origin and development over the past three decades, exploring the core concerns and literary strategies that make it so distinctive and vital
Content:
"The rise of a new wave of science fiction has been the most important literary phenomenon in contemporary China. During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the genre underwent a sudden revival and flourished; it continued to prosper in the following decade and gained recognition from readers and media both domestically and globally. In Fear of Seeing, Mingwei Song argues that through illuminating that which has been invisible, this new wave of Chinese science fiction opens up new possibilities and inspires new ways of telling stories about China and the world. Deeply entangled with the politics of a changing China, this new wave of science fiction complicates the visions of the nation's future: it unsettles historical determinism with dystopian variations; envelops political consciousness in scientific discourses on uncertainty; and sharpens social criticism with an acute awareness of both the potential and menace of technological revolutions. Song analyzes representative works of the major authors of the new wave, exploring how SF's representation of the invisible has motivated larger changes in the contemporary literary paradigm"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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AcknowledgmentsPrologue: A Lonely Hidden Army, 20101. Poetics of the Invisible: Introducing the New Wave2. Science Fiction as Method: Worlding the Genre3. Can We Read A Madman s Diary as Science Fiction? Rewriting Literary HistoryExcursus I: Looking Backward: 2010-19004. A Poetic Heart in the Dark Forest: Liu Cixin s Three-Body Universe5. The Power of Darkness in Han Song: Mythology of the Chthonic6. Variations on Utopia: Specters and Myths7. A Topology of Hope: Sinotopia and Heterotopia8. Chinese New Wave Goes Global: The Posthuman TurnExcursus II: The Rise of She-SF: 2010-20229. New Wonders of a Nonbinary Universe: Opening of the Neo-BaroqueEpilogue: The Wandering Earth, 2019NotesBibliographyIndex
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231555531
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Song, Mingwei Fear of seeing New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] ISBN 9780231555531
Language:
English
Keywords:
China
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Science-Fiction
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Geschichte 1990-2023
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