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Chinese Science Fiction

Concepts, Forms, and Histories

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Editors:
  1. Mingwei Song

    1. Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA

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  2. Nathaniel Isaacson

    1. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

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  3. Hua Li

    1. Montana State University, Bozeman, USA

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  • Re-orients Chinese literary studies through the science fiction paradigm
  • Traces the genre in its current form as well as its historical contexts
  • Covers all historical periods, forms, and themes in Chinese science fiction

Part of the book series: Studies in Global Science Fiction (SGSF)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Nathaniel Isaacson, Hua Li, Mingwei Song
    Pages 1-32

  5. Beyond Anthropocene and Utopia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211
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    2. Of Illness and Illusion: The Chaosmology of Han Song’s Hospital Trilogy

      • Jannis Jizhou Chen
      Pages 213-234

    3. Liu Cixin and the Cosmic Pastoral

      • Gwennaël Gaffric
      Pages 235-250

    4. Bodies in Transformation: The Politics of Post-80s Science Fiction Authors Chi Hui, Chen Qiufan, and Zhang Ran

      • Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker
      Pages 251-270

    5. The Posthuman and the Neo-Baroque in Taiwan Science Fiction

      • Mingwei Song
      Pages 271-294

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 295-305
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About this book

This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan cultures, internet fiction, gender, eco-criticism, post-humanism and biomedical discourse. These studies present a “second wave” of Chinese sf studies, re-evaluating the canon of Chinese sf print and cinematic production, and expand the range of critical approaches to the subject. The structure of the volume is both chronological and theme-focused. These studies also demonstrate that Chinese science fiction represents a significant contribution to modern Chinese cultural production, both in terms of its value, speaking powerfully to our modern condition, and its sheer volume in terms of production and consumption. Chinese science fiction speaks to both China’s rapidly shifting reality, its political multiplicity and its formless future, voicing the anticipations and anxieties of a new epoch filled with accelerating alterations and increasing uncertainty.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wellesley College, Wellesley, USA

    Mingwei Song

  • North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA

    Nathaniel Isaacson

  • Montana State University, Bozeman, USA

    Hua Li

About the editors

Mingwei Song is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature at Wellesley College. He is the author of numerous books and research articles, including Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900–1959 (2015), New Wave in Chinese Science Fiction: History, Poetics, Texts (2020; in Chinese) and Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction (2023). He is the co-editor of The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First Century Chinese Science Fiction (2018). 

Nathaniel Isaacson is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at North Carolina State University. His book, Celestial Empire: the Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (2017), examines the emergence of science fiction in late Qing China and the relationship between science fiction and Orientalism. 


Hua Li is Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montana State University. She has published two monographs: Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua: Coming of Age in Troubled Times (2011) and Chinese Science Fiction during the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw (2021).


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